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Is religion is a force for good or evil? Good religion is a force for good, and evil religion is a force for evil. The only problem is telling the difference, and that's really not that hard. Jesus said something that's true because it's obvious--not because Jesus said it--that a good tree brings forth good fruits and a wicked one bears poisonous fruits. If the fruits of a religion are poisonous--such as prewar Japanese state...

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Who is the wrost serial killer? Mao Tse Tung, Communist dictator of China. He murderered more than 75 million of his own people, often by starvation, often after fiendish tortures of his own devising. Second worst was Joseph Stalin, who murdered 60 million. After that, Hitler; after that, the war lords of Imperial Japan, who murdered 17 million Asians.

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What is the origin of the Trinity doctrine? I have searched the Bible and can find no trace of this teaching. For about 400 years, the early Christians struggled to understand various statements in the Bible that spoke about the divinity of Jesus and the personal attributes of the Holy Spirit and the relations between the three of them. 400 years! Finally they were all balanced out in a doctrine which we call the Trinity. That was believed for 1500 years with no further evidence. Within the last...

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Are those who perceive errors in the Bible, dishonest, misguided, or both? All perceived errors can be adequately explained? Some are, some aren't. You presume that someone who asks a questions will accept a good answer if you give it to him. If he doesn't, then he's got an agenda.

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is there any example in scripture of anyone being baptized for a deceased person. When the Bible speaks of "baptisms for the dead," we have to realize that it was written to people in a particular time and place--people familiar with the Old Testament. The word "baptism" means any kind of ritual washing, and there were many such ritual washings in the Old Testament, for instance when someone touched a corpse he had to wash his clothing and he was "unclean until sundown," or...

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is there any example in scripture of anyone being baptized for a deceased person. Share your answer...

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Does anyone have the list of Bible passages where Jehovah in the Old Testament equals Jesus in the New? No, folks, there's a list--I saw it once in the form of a circle with radiating spokes--where an OT statement about Jehovah (and I know it was never pronounced that way) is paired with a NT statement about Jesus, e.g. "the LORD is my shepherd" (Ps 23) and "I am the good shepherd) Jn 10. A JW told me that there were two flocks but v 16 says "And there shall be one flock and one shepherd." ...

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I'm looking to read the bible, front to back, and am wondering what the best translation is? What makes it better than others? The absolutely best available Bible translation is the four-column Comparative Study Bible by Zondervan. If you have four of the best translations available right next to each other, you can know almost as much as I can (I'm a professional Bible translator) by looking at the original languages.

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A wild animal attacks a human while out hiking and that animal is then hunted and killed. Why? Because--although most animals have a natural fear of humans--some learn not to, and actually kill them. And to keep it from happening again, we destroy those animals, because the life of an individual animal is insignificant in the greater scheme of things, but the life of a human being is extremely significant, unless of course you're a feminist who wants an abortion.

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Do you know how Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe? It wasn't Israel. It was Hamas and Hezbollah. You might as well say America brought Hiroshima to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe. Yeah? Well, the 17 million innocent and helpless Asians that the stinking Jap army raped before they murdered were what caused Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan got off easily.

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What else, can you do with a pair of socks? I keep all my unpaired socks with the rag bag. They are very convenient for dusting and for dirty jobs like cleaning the bathroom fixtures. Also for stove rags--you don't want to use your dishcloth, the grease will permanently stain them, but on dark socks they don't even show.

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What are your thoughts on Edward Kennedy's death? He did some good--he was instrumental in the deregulation of trucking and airlines--but let's never forget three things: that he made 37 credit-card phone calls to help protect his sorry rear end before making one call to see about Mary Jo Kopechne; he had the morals of a goat; and this shocker from Forbes magazine: During the cold war Ted Kennedy offered direct aid and comfort to the...

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If you could travel back into one decade in history what decade would that be? Why? The 1910's, and do everything possible to prevent World War I from happening. More and more historians are coming to realize that almost every terrible thing in the 20th century came as a direct result of that war, and of our side winning it. Without World War I there would have been no Hitler, no Lenin, no Stalin, no Mao, no atom bomb, no radical Islam. It is almost impossible to...

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I just turned 18 yrs and I have converted from a Christian to a Muslim without their permission. I did this because over course of my life I found the truth. My parents obviously do not understand this and they are angry. What should I do? I've noticed that at around 18 young people will adopt whatever religion they are instructed in. Even if they were confirmed or baptized at 14, they need to do it again around 18, or else around the time they get married or have their first child. Why don't you do your parents the favor of taking adult instruction in your first religion again so you can know what you are leaving...

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Im a stay at home mom whose husband works out of town a lot. im alone with no family or friends. i txt old friends from high school and he is upset by this. when he is home he is txting his friends. what do i do? i am so lonely. i need SOMEONE to talk to You tell him that there is no part of the marriage ceremony that allows him to curb your freedom of speech and that if he doesn't like it you'll divorce him and find a man who isn't a control freak. Alternatively, try talk radio. I put Dennis Prager on my MP3 player and when my wife has to be gone do the housework while listening to him. You can try old shows for free at...

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Do I need to send my mother-in-law flowers and a card now that her sister has passed away. I see her every day and have hugged her and told her I'm sorry for her loss. We go to the funeral tomorrow. I just don't know if I'm suppose to do more. I always thought that funeral flowers were a waste of money... until my baby daughter died. Send them. It's money well spent.

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My fiance' never admits when she is wrong! I want to resolve this problem for our sake. We have anger issues and when we talk about it I get excited and end up yelling because she has a mouth that would not quit and I end up making it a yelling match HELP God, but you're stupid. Where were people like you when I was selling shares in the Brooklyn Bridge?

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Is christianity considered a cult? "Cult" has two definitions. It either means following a charimstic leader wherever he leads, even if it is to massive murder and starvation, e.g. the Stalin cult, the Mao cult; or it means a counterfeit Christianity, like Mormonism or Jehovah's Witnesses. By the definition of the word, therefore, Christianity is not a cult.

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I heard this on the radio yesterday: that you will spend 35 hours in your lifetime shaving. who believes this? The only reason I got a triple major in college was that I never shaved and always went to meals ten minutes after the dining hall opened so that I never stood in line and could spend the time I saved studying.

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What is your motto in life? The difference between a winner and a loser is that the winner gets up one more time than he's knocked down, and the loser gets up one time less. You're never too old to start over.

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Is it ok to smoke wile pregnant? why or why not? Babies shouldn't smoke, and if you're smoking, they're smoking. In a parallel situation, I just read about a Siberian woman charged with homicide because she kept nursing her baby while she was drunk. The baby died of acute alcohol poisoning. If you've gotta smoke, switch to a pipe or a nice slim cigar--your tobacconist may even have el-cheapos that look like...

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HELP! I'm stuck at a funeral and i have a raging erection.. And i have to read the Eulogy! WHAT DO I DO!? Get to hell of Answerbag and go to the misnamed Answerbag Adult.

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Having a couple of debates on this issue: when a woman gives consent to sex, is she obligated to perform or allow ANYTHING he wants? Did she forfeit her right to say stop when he hurts or abuses her? Either you are kidding, or you are sick, or you are in a relationship that should have ended last year already. Sex is supposed to be about love, y'know? And love means wanting the best for the other person. It's about treating people kindly and respectfully and gently. If your question is self-referential, dump the scumbucket and refer him to the nearest brothel.

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Will you carry your mp3 player where ever you go? Yes! It lets me listen to Dennis Prager, America's rabbi, whenever my mind is not otherwise occupied. And I'm not even Jewish! But he is one of the wisest men in the world. You can subscribe at Pragertopia.com and can find over a thousand old programs for free at Towhall.com. I have no financial connection to either of these organizations, but if I'd known about him 27 years...

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Lord Ahmed who is the highest ranking Moslim official in the UK stated that wearing the burka in England is an insult. Do you agree or disagree? Why? By burka I assume you mean something that covers the face. It's worse than an insult. It's dehumanizing. You don't even know whether you're seeing a woman or a male terrorist. Who covers their faces voluntarily? Criminals and terrorists. It should be illegal in advanced countries.

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If you win a suit in small claimes,but the person is still selling the item ,because the judge didn't put any bars against the person ,which he should have ,can I bring suit against him or her again ,but in federal court instead or no? Thank you ! You go back to the judge and ask him to enforce his judgement. He should send an officer of the court to do that.

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You can't keep this until you have given it. what is it Your word, of course.

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What ordinary household item do you use in an unconventional way? Binder clips to roll up the toothpaste tube. They are far better than anything sold for that purpose. This was my own original tip and I sent it in to Mary Hunt's website, EverydayCheapskate.com. It's also good to solve the perpetual argument between two adults sharing one toothpaste tube, about whether to squeeze it from the end or the middle.

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What should be the punishment for the couple who kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard? Same thing they planned for her--life without possibility of parole. Actually, the best variant would to take them to some Arab country and put them into the slave market. It's too bad we're too civilized to do that.

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I used to know a Butcher named Mr Cleaver,who have you met who's name fits their job? My mother said she knew a dentist named Otis Paine.

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I'm need help telling my wonderful husband he has bad breath. I don't even sleep with him anymore, I'm on the couch. It still doesn't work with the fact that he stinks up the whole room. Im so nervous in public, I'm having headaches, HELP!!!!!!! It sounds like he has pyorrhea, which would knock a buzzard off a fence post at ten paces. Only his dentist can help him with that. Talk to the dentist beforehand and urge him to make an appointment--you don't have to say why.

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Am I dead yet? You stink, therefore you am.

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Does anyone out there know the meaning of the Russian last name "Romanik" Well, a "Roman" is a romance, which is to say a novel--not necessarily romantic. Romanik does NOT mean a romantic; that would be romantik. Nor does it mean a novelist, which is romanist. From my knowledge of Russian, which I do speak, I would guess it means an adventurer or an exotic. The Oxford Russian Dictionary doesn't list it as a separate word. It could also mean...

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The prices of homes clothing and food today as compared with those during the great depression are? There is no way of comparing these items because they don't take into account things like telecommunications and medical care. During the Deperssion most hospitals' major expense was for clean sheets. Hospitals were where you went to die. Today miracles happen. And telecommunications--please! When I was a boy we had a soup can by the phone that we filled with coins to pay for...

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I told this guy that i had to block and delete him because i had too much of a crush on him and that i needed to move on to more realistic things because i knew that i never had a chance with him (hes soo goodlooking, and im so not!) weird? Not weird--MISTAKEN. You might be overestimating his hotness and underestimating yours. Unless it is purely hormones, you should go back to him.

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Have you ever been cooking and have a fire happen on the stove? (I had a pot holder catch on fire) Somehow forgot to watch a skillet full of oil and it caught fire. What to use? Extinguisher? Baking soda? Fortunately I thought of the two right things to do: turn off the heat, and put a cover on the skillet.

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Can you solve the fishing pole riddle? A piece of string. He bent the pole and it became less than six foot three. Actually, he could have just stuck the fishhook into the handle and tightened the line. Alternate answer: A .357 Magnum.

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If i put soft green on one wall, soft blue on the other, yellow on the other and then orange on the other wall for the toddler room would that look ok? what do you think? Try pastel green on all four walls AND the ceiling. We did that to our family room, the one with a fireplace and without a TV, and had a dark green carpet and it was the most peaceful, relaxing, wonderful room I've ever been in!

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Why do people go on so much about how bad British food is? The only time in my life I got food poisoning was in London. McRibs from McDonald's. I was so sick I saw nothing but the Changing of the Guard.

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Have you ever invented your own alcoholic drink? Well, I invented a philosophy of drink-mixing. Figure out which base liquor you like best and use it in everything. If you like Scotch in your Harvey Wallbanger, order it that way. Let the bartender sneer. He's not drinking it. You are. You're also paying him for it, and you're entitlted to get what tastes best to you, not what some recipe-book guru tells you. And how do...

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How Many Languages Are There In The WORLD!? That's a little difficult to answer. Technically Jeannie R (#1 answer) is right, but when you try to define what is a language and what is only a dialect it gets a little trickier. I have a very useful contribution to this question. I speak Russian, Ukrainian and German. So: Do I speak four languages, or three languages and a dialect? I would say I speak three and a dialect....

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Is there anything to eat that isn't poison? Even organic vegetables have a substantial risk of Salmonella, Shigella, and other pathogens (LINK). So what to eat? Eat a normal diet and don't worry about a little poison. It stimulates part of your immune system.

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What is the greatest single line of poetry ever written? We ... are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved, and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields.

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I have a shiney new penny. What will you trade me for it? Five shiny new Ukrainian kopeks. It's a bigger coin and it doesn't tarnish.

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Last night I went to bed and it must of taken me at least 2 1/2 hours to fall asleep. How can I fall asleep quicker? I don't go to bed till I'm tired and also read in bed--no TV. Also, and this is important and I've never read it anywhere else, if you had any alcohol to drink the night before, you should have had less coffee that day or you won't be able to fall asleep at your regular time.

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I'm suffering from blasphemous thought(extremely evil) that come up in my head with no intention of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.I believe in God and I never want bad thoughts in my head.Has anyone been like me? Or please tell me how I can stop this. Borrow or buy a spare hymnal from your church. Bring it home and start memorizing some of your favorite hymns, the ones whose melodies you know. When you can recite them from memory you have something to call on to drive bad thoughts out of your head. I have a verse especially memorized for nightmares. When one occurs I recite it once or twice and am able to return to sleep.

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Do you think that we are heading for a revolution like what the french had? The French Revolution was a left-wing revolution. Right now the left wing is the establishment, and if it pushes the right wing too far there might be a right-wing revolution, but I would prefer the word "reformation". There are three meanings to the word reformation; to change the shape of, to root out the corruption in, and the original meaning of the term, to return to its...

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Do you prefer cubed, crushed, or ice chips? I live in Eastern Europe and the custom has never caught on here, which is a good thing. Liquids don't have to be ice cold to taste good, and I've grown to prefer most of them cool rather than cold. The last time I was in America I was making a speech, asked for a glass of water, they of course filled it with ice and it gave me a sore throat and a cold for the next three weeks....

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Have you ever been on the radio? Yes. Ten minutes of fame with Dennis Prager. I was very nervous, he was very gracious. He's a good inteviewer.

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Is stem cell research still banned in the USA? Do the do research with animal stem cells, and just not humans, or what? How does it all work? It isn't banned. President Bush's opposition was not to stem cell research, which both private companies and state governments were allowed to do. He opposed having the federal government pay for it out of general taxpayer funds. There is an enormous difference between "refusing to pay for something" and "banning" it.

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What physical things turn you off instantly? It is astonishing to me that the younger generation--millions of people under 35--never mastered the fine art of keeping their lips closed while they chew food or gum. They look like pigs and it's actually easier to do it the polite and sophisticated way than it is to chomp like an animal. What's wrong with their mothers?

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Anyone get any hints on how to make a MRI scanner at home? Take two doctorates in physics and the extract of fifty dumpsters full of electronics trash. Mix according to the directions in the shop manual. Plug in to warm up. Now comes the hard part: Apply for all the state and federal permits you'll need to use it.

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Are criminals really products of their society? Or can it be hereditary? About twenty years ago two Jewish criminologists, one a psychologist and the other a psychologist, completed a 17 year study on the cause of crime. They studied everything available, including twins where one was a criminal and one wasn't, siblings who grew up in the same environment--in 17 years, everything imaginable. It's hard to believe they would have left any possible factor...

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What is the best diet for someone with liver disease..specifically primary biliary cirrrhosis? eat often, or not so often? cut fats or lots of fat? drink lots of fluids or not so much due to fluid retention?? the info is confusing...what works? You didn't mention milk thistle. Get some capsules; it improves liver function and is specific against liver disease.

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For the people who attended the 'town hall' meetings and disagree with the health care reform - did you get a check from the insurance companies yet for attending? I'm still waiting. Stupid question. Minus five.

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Our daughter never acknowledges gifts we send. If we stop sending them she asks for something costing hundreds of dollars to make up for our not sending her and her children anything. What should we do? You raised the little gold-digger, but it's never too late to teach her some manners. And you do that verbally and by your actions. But you have to persuade your husband either to man up or to tell her that you speak for both of them.

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Do some of your book shelves sag because of the weight of your books? I hired a workman to hang a bookshelf from the wall. One night while I couldn't sleep I was working late and heard a little noise and looked over just in time to see the shelf and 90 pounds of books fall right on top of the bed. The shelf actually broke when it hit.

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Is it alright to spank a 10 year old if you catch him smoking? Ten years old is too big to spank. By the time they're big enough that it literally does hurt you more than it hurts them (I mean your hand) you have to think of a different kind of punishment.

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I know almost all girls lie about their age, I'm 27. What should I say when someone asks me how old am I? "How old do I look?"

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7 Radical Muslims, 2 Christians and 1 Jew locked in a room, what would happen? First the Muslims would torture the Jew while the Christians tried to stop them. After he was dead they would torture the Christians. After they were dead they would kill each other until only one was left.

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Should we get rid of the dollar bill and replace it with the current dollar coins? Hasn't Canada done it already? This is not the time to do that. If you have a stable currency, you can follow the European model; but the worst inflation we've ever seen is about to hit, and I've lived through inflation right after the collapse of the Soviet Union. First your pennies and nickels become worthless, then your dimes and quarters become worthless and the dollar becomes the new penny. I had to carry...

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Who are these people on AB that can remove people's post because of profanity? If this is the case I will no longer participate. Let's end this police state mentality. I hate it when people think they can tell you what is right & wrong. If I was on a bus with you, would you object to my smoking? Well, public cursing offends a lot of people the same way cigarette smoking does. It pollutes the air. Some of us pick our restaurants and bars specifically to get away from cigarette smoke, and some of us pick our websites specifically because they are family friendly. Cursing and smoking should be practiced by consenting adults...

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I you were going to have a "mixed drink" what is your pleasure rum, bourbon, vodka, gin, everclear or something else ? (thank you) What I discovered working in a restaurant when I could have a different cocktail every night was that you pick a base liquor that you like and have it in everything. If, say, you like Scotch, order it with orange juice and let the bartender sneer. He isn't drinking it and he isn't paying for it, either. Heck, Brits drink beer with lemonade, which I wouldn't try on a bet. Why...

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Men,what do you think of American women in general? Do you believe they want too much equality in a relationship and it makes dating and marriage difficult? Would you just prefer a subservient woman with no opinions of her own, like a Stepford wife? Many or even most American women have never been taught to fight their natures the way men have been. Men are taught from early ages to control their natural tendencies to aggression, and the good ones learn to curb their tendency toward promiscuity. Women are told that if it's feminine, it's good, and encouraged to let their feelings rule them instead of ruling their feelings. So,...

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How can you tell if someone is a liberal? His opinions are all based on emotion and he is impervious to facts and logic. Examples: Free health care sounds good and "the rich" will pay for mine; perfectly pure air and water is worth whatever we have to pay for it, even if it's projected to cost 101% of our national income forever; I'm for helping the poor with other people's money and will never EVER ask if...

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What do you prefer, Burger King or McDonald's? Definitely Burger King. Even MacDonalds's own research department said that their food didn't taste as good as Burger King or Wendy's (an Ohio franchise). Big Mac, feh! Why not have a little meat with your mayo?

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Is God's will really done on earth as it is in heaven? No. That's why we pray that it be done. The Lord's Prayer is using a subjunctive mood here. It's a short cut for "MAY Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." In the same way, when we say "God bless you," we really mean "MAY God bless you." After all, we can't order God around and tell Him who to bless. The subjunctive mood is...

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If a person sells a used computer, is it legal to include the software that came with it? Does the hard drive have to be wiped? It is legal and you don't have to wipe the hard drive. After all, it's not like you were keeping a copy for yourself. It's the same as selling a phonograph together with your LP collection. They were yours, now they are his, and you can't get "yours" back.

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Why is it that chinese people use chop sticks when there staple food is rice? They were invented a very long time ago when hygiene wasn't understood but what was understood was that if you're a family eating out of a common bowl one way to keep the fast eaters from bogarting the lion's share and make them more satisfied with less food would be to slow down the speed they could eat at.

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Do you have eerie powers? Yes. I can turn wine into water or make a lame man blind.

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Is this shoplifting? a person stays at a three level story toy store after hours comes out of his hiding place in the store at 3 a.m. goes behind a counter opens a cash register and steals money from the cash register by stuffing and putting in a bag No, it's impossible. Stores that big don't leave money in the registers overnight. But you wouldn't be charged with shoplifting, just larceny or grand theft.

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My employer fired me and had me arrested for theft, I was found not guilty, Now can I sue them? Why ask us? Lawyers aren't on Answerbag giving away $100 answers for free. Go talk to a lawyer. It won't cost you anything, because that type of lawsuit is handled by what's called a contingency fee.

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Is edward teach black or white? Edward Teach is a dead white pirate.

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Can drinking Vodka everyday make you gain weight? Vodka has 80 calories per ounce and no nutrients. It also increases your appetite, but, since it has no bulk, it does nothing to fill your stomach. How can it NOT make you gain weight?

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REPUBLICANS: Here is your chance to explain, as I am in the dark on the issue: What is it that's wrong with Obama's health care plan? I'm not looking to pick an argument. I'd just like to understand, since the news doesn't really explain much nowadays Where do I begin? There's so much wrong. Let's start out with the very idea of handing over a sixth of the national economy to a man who's never run a lemonade stand. He doesn't want to fix what's wrong with it, such as making insurance portable, capping malpractice awards or letting you buy the insurance you want instead of paying for other people's...

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Do you think Mandarin should be taught in more public schools? No. Mandarin is a ferociously difficult language and shouldn't be your first language or even your second. Start with conversational Spanish, French or German, then do Latin or Greek to learn more about grammar. Then you may finally be ready to tackle a language so difficult that even the Japanese and Koreans would prefer to communicate with Chinese in English. I mean, you...

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Dad was sentenced a week ago to 2 1/2 years in prison (assault) for pouring hot grease over a colleague's face, causing him second degree burns (he is a chef) in Toronto. He will be sent to a federal prison, too harsh? Should we sue the federal gov.? First you might try bobbing for French fries, then decide if the penalty was too harsh. Toronto is in Canada--do you also speak of your central government as federal in Canada?

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Finally, death row inmate Troy Davis will have an opportunity to bring new evidence to prove his innocence. Doesn't this and other cases bring enough doubt in capital convictions to abolish the death penalty? See Time article. I'm 60 and within my lifetime no innocent person has been executed. Many have been sentenced to death, but no one proved innocent has been executed in our country. Failure to execute criminals results in MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE DYING. Even opponents of the death penalty who have done serious research have concluded that every execution saves at least three innocent lives. So if...

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Why do we call it a pair of scissors, underwear, and pants when we're only refering to one? I guess I could understand it in cases of clothing for morbidly obese people. Same reason I wear a pair of glasses. A pair of eyeglasses is literally a pair of glasses. A pair of scissors is a pair of knives. A pair of pants is a pair of pantaloon leggings. (We don't call briefs, boxer shorts, or undershirts of any kind a pair of underwear so I don't know what you're talking about in that regard.)

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I found a 2",white arrowhead in NW Oh. I rarely wear it because I'm unaware of it's origin. Native Americans are deservedly proud of their heritage and I mean no disrespect wearing it w/out proper knowledge. Any ideas? A serious collector told me that most of what we consider arrowheads obviously weren't because they were so big the arrow wouldn't fly straight. They were either spearheads or, more probably, knives or daggers.

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BIG ISSUE!!!! i m a 15 year old boy and i an so concerned about my height. i m 175cm tall and it stopped growing, my underarm hair started growing abt 8,9 months ago. My dad always says once u start growing underarm hair, u cant get any taller. HELP? You're 5 foot 10, right? Relax. The taller you grow, the shorter you live. When's the last time you saw a tall old man? And remember this: Some men are measured from the neck up, and some from the neck down.

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If south africa has a moderate climate, why did the natives develop such dark sin, since skin color is dependent on sun/heat? If you'll look at the globe, you'll notice that even southern Africa is hundreds of miles closer to the equator than southern Australia or South America. And it's almost all veldt--not jungle, no shade to speak of. This means that those who didn't have quite dark skin to block ultraviolet light died either from skin cancer or folic acid deficiency (broken down by...

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Why do convenience stores that are open 24 hours a day have locks on their doors? Emergencies, inventory, sale, bankruptcy, or an unforeseen reduction in hours. Besides which they would have to be custom-made and that means they would cost more than doors WITH locks.

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Do you think a daily walk of one mile is enough to be healthy? Every little bit helps, and two miles would be better and four would be better still--but the biggest improvement is the improvement between zero and 1. It also helps to walk faster. I've gotten my pace up to a military 120 steps per minute by using a pocket metronome from the music store, even though I'm still 60 pounds overweight.

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Why do people have children You used the plural, so I will answer concerning the plural. If a woman has just one child, it is because she or she and her partner or husband want to experience parenting. But if she has several, it is probable that she, or they, are religious; and if they have many, it is almost certain that they are religious Christians, Jews, or Mormons. I say "religious" because some people...

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Do you have good enough tasting tap water that you could drink it right out of the sink? Where I live the water is so bad that first we boil it, then we filter it, then we throw it away and drink beer.

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Do you enjoy staying at bed and breakfasts? Oh yes, I especially remember one where the hostess put such a dab of honey on the toast that I said "Oh, I see that you keep a bee!"

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Which animal would win ? Bear vs gorilla . Bear. Claws versus fingernails and carnivorous fangs versus vegetarian teeth. I presume you're matching them pound for pound? There is also the fact that the gorilla is a defensive, rather than an aggressive, fighter, and is not used to killing for food so it has less practice.

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Why does the sun rise from the east, and not from any other direction? As far as we can predict from our knowledge of planetary mechanics, any planet anywhere must have an axis which its sun keeps in a stable or oscillating relationship, and that axis may be at any inclination from zero to ninety degrees--between ninety and 135 degrees would be very unstable and the tides would try to move it back. Since no non-rotating planet has yet been found except those...

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Why cant someone be more than one religion at the same time? If you can hold several contradictory beliefs in your head at the same time, perhaps you could; but most people don't want to. For example, either there is only one God, or there are several, or none. Either that God is best described by the word "trinity" or he isn't. Either he commands people not to kill, or he commands them TO kill. Either he has a son, or he...

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How to make tea bags You don't. Loose tea is a superior quality to tea bags. The only reason people put up with the fuss and bother of loose tea is to get the better taste from it.

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Can I add anything to mashed potatoes, apart from butter and milk to make them more interesting or tasty? I live in Ukraine where they add finely chopped onions and salt and then fry the whole thing in a wrapper of dough and sell them on the street. They do the same thing with deodorized sauerkraut and pease porridge. Not bad, cheap, and convenient. I'll admit that I prefer the hot dog wraps, though, and corn dogs are of course even better.

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What sport would you like to see aired on American network television? An investigation into all the documents from Obama's past that he's covering up. The birth certificate isn't important. What's important is all the radical and Communist associations he's had throughout his life.

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Russian _____________. is just a sloppy dialect of Ukrainian, less grammatical, more irregular, with less elegant pronunciation rules and it doesn't sound as pleasant.

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Was Steven Weinberg right in saying "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."? He's completely wrong. In the 20th century, the greatest evils were done by the secular. Communists, who are all secular, are responsible for at least one hundred million murders. In the name of their atheistic ideology the idealists in the Soviet Union and China herded scores of millions into slave labors camps and worked and starved them to death. If Russians and Chinese had been...

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Why do gas stations sell gas with the 9/10 of a penny per gallon? Do they think that we're too stupid to figure out that it is almost a penny more? Why don't they just round it up to the next penny? Remember that this practice started when gas was 12 cents a gallon or thereabouts. And they do it for the same reason all prices end in 9--because it works. Many years ago Little Golden Books noticed that sales took a sharp upswing when they IN-creased the price from 25 cents to 29. In other words, they do it because it works.

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Why do you think some male doctors decide to specialize in gynecology? To help sick people with special needs. Same reason they specialize in anything else. Sometimes doctors take up, or avoid, specialties for reasons that seem frivolous--one doctor wanted to be an ophthalmologist but the specialty uses too many long words that are hard to spell.

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Do you have a Dairy Queen in your town? Heck, I don't even have a Dairy Queen on my continent.

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What's the worst town in America? Washington, D.C.

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If asked, could you think of one good thing Adolf Hitler did? If Germany hadn't become Nazi, it would have gone Communist during the Depression. Hitler snatched power out of the hands of the Communists and attacked the Soviet Union before the Soviets could attack Germany. If he hadn't re-armed Germany and spent so much time fighting Stalin, the Communists would have rolled through Poland, Germany, France, down into Spain, and probably...

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I find the idea of child beauty pagents disgusting. what are your thoughts on them? Let's let children be children, shall we? And not sexualize them any earlier than they naturally ripen into it? Heck, I already think that most Miss Americas, et cetera, don't deserve it--there should be a Miss Non-Cosmeticized America just to see what they really look like. The idea of a six year old in makeup, except when she's playing with other six year olds, is sick....

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I love salt, how about you? Then you should really dig Romano cheese. You don't eat it, you just break a bit off of a slice and rub it to death with the tip of your tongue.

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US polls show that among people who already have health insurance, a large % do not favor extending such benefits [to those who do not] through health care reform. Why do you think this is - is it simply the "I have mine, too bad" syndrome? Every American has health care, and so do illegal immigrants. All a sick person has to do is show up in an emergency room. But about four per cent don't have health care insurance and can't afford it (the large majority of those who don't have it don't want it). The attitude is not "I have mine, too bad about you," it's "I paid for mine. Why should I...

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Do you think it is right for people to buy things like purses for more than $1,000? Don't think of the silly people spending $1,000 on a purse. Think of the artists, artisans, and craftspeople who get the money. Most of them will put it to much better use, and making a purse creates very little in the way of pollution. Better to have people with money to burn buying purses than buying up all the land and commodities. It's a natural way to recycle money back to...

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Is there any real difference between men and women besides reproductive functions? There are plenty of people who think the only differences are caused by socialization, but then they have to answer this question: If your theory is true, then why is Homo Sapiens the only species on earth in which the sexes are basically the same? 20-some years ago a doctor botched a circumcision and got the kid's parents to agree to a sex-change operation to conceal what he had...

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What one thing should every man know about women? that "No" means "No." It doesn't mean yes. It doesn't even mean "Maybe." It means "Stop. NOW."

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Is Poker a Game of Luck Or Skill? Pure skill. Over a large number of games, it is statistically certain that every player will get just as many good cards as everyone else. That's why it's called the President's Game.

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Do you think Jesus would have been in favor of free healthcare for all citizens? Oh, sure. Jesus was very generous with other people's money. He equipped the Twelve Disciples with very good weapons and training in how to take it away from those who had more than others and giving it to those who had less, while keeping a lot for himself... hey, wait a minute, that sounds like Obama and the Democratic Congress, not Jesus. As I recall, Jesus called the one guy who...

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Should there be a contest to name the sun and moon? Other stars have names and so do moons of other planets. They have names, Sol and Luna. Of course those are just the Latin words for "sun" and "moon." Earth has the name Terra, and that's just the Latin word for "earth." Since other planets and moons are named for gods and goddesses, the moon should be called Diana, after the moon goddess--but who would want that? And Apollo was the sun god, or at least his...

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Why do so many people seem to believe the Republicans' lies about healthcare reform? Where is the public outrage at their phony charges of euthanasia and rationing? Obama himself said Medicare will bankrupt us, so what does he want to do? Give it to everybody and all at once, including illegals, which will bankrupt us faster. Euthanasia is already offered in Oregon, and when you are simply refused treatment because of your age and the cost you'll take their cyanide pill and like it. Now your granny, or for that matter you, can get a hip or knee...

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Why do people drink & drive?.... I was at a dinner party in Ukraine and my wife and I had one glass of wine. The host and hostess had several, and it started to rain, and we had to get the other two guests home somehow. In Ukraine two things you don't do in a car are drive after drinking or drive if it isn't your car, so we spent minutes figuring out how we would get them home, when suddenly I slapped my forehead...

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Does all of the old, outdated rituals in Catholic Churches turn you off, like me? I mean the goofy outfits and hats, the sprinkling of holy water and incense, the genuflecting, etc. No opinion but I'll give you an outside opinion. Dennis Prager said that every Christmas eve he and his Jewish parents would watch the high mass in Rome. Not bad if the theater, the ritual, the solempne, would make it an annual tradition for people who couldn't even understand Latin and it wasn't their own religion!

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What is one positive thought that you can tell me about your brother in law or sister in law? My brother-in-law (actually, my wife's brother in law) is a prince. I wish he was my pastor. I honor him as nobody I know personally. He's a stonemason/farmer.

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What is this health care reform about is it evil doing The left wing is for it, not to improve it--there are many ways to improve it--but so that all will be equal. Except, of course, Congresscritters and that 1% of the population that they favor. The right wing is for improving it, and not letting Obama break the greatest medical system in the world so he can remake it in his own image. That is the general approach of the left and right...

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Is there something that whenever you cook your cat always begs for? Funny you should ask. I've lived in Ukraine since the Soviet Union collapsed and one night when I walked into our flat I took a deep breath, let out an "Aaaah!" and said "What's cooking?" My wife said "The same thing that's ALWAYS cooking when you say that. Dog food." Works both ways!

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Could Christianity be just like Scientology and merely created for power and cash? I mean if you think about it the Jesus guy just popped out one day and they may have decided to use him for political power. Most of the 14 people who started Christianity (Jesus, the 12, and Paul) died violently at the hand of other people, usually after torture, and St. John died in exile and poverty on the Isle of Patmos. Scientology, however ... well, we've all heard the stories about it and money.

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I need to become more optimistic help me plz lol Actually, it would be better to become a meliorist, as Helen Keller was. (She may even have coined the word.) A meliorist--like optimist and pessimist it comes from a Latin word--is someone who recognizes reality for what it is but tries to make the world better.

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Why do some people waste their time going to church when they clearly don't learn anything from it and become better? The easy answer is that some people just get enough religion to innoculate themselves against it. They never come down with a true case of religion and therefore it never changes their lives. And Jesus said there would be a lot of hypocrites attaching themselves to churches. You know what the word "hypocrite" means? "Actor." Frederick Douglass wrote that the worst...

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Why does stuff I buy at Wal-Mart stop working or fall apart in a few weeks? Things that have stopped working: phone answering machine, pocket calculator. Things that fell apart: two pairs of shoes. When China invaded ancient Japan, the war cry was "Incoming Chinese junk!" And that's still what the wily Chinese are doing. They disguise their solid pollution as merchandise and sell it to us. Mostly it's cheap stuff which turns out to be not worth finding the sales slip in the trash can, going back to the store and standing in line for. But that's what we're...

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1957 nickel with no mint mark how much is it worth? Only five cents. Only the oldest Jefferson nickels have any extra value at all to a collector.

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I am confused...The juice container says "100% juice"but the ingredients say "from concentrate." So which is it? Am I retarded, or does this make sense? It means they took out the water to make it cheaper to ship and then put the water back in. It still has the same components, but they're honest enough to tell you it's been processed with heat.

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I am ordering a pizza - what would you like on it? The best pizza I ever had was ... assorted. We were a large group and ordered six various and I had a slice of each and it was wonderful! Now whenever we go out we just order and share, because the variety is even better than my favorite. And the worst I ever had was ... at a "build it yourself" restaurant. People who do this for a living are better at combining and balancing...

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How can I lose 37 pounds overnight? Have a baby. Oops, the last answerer was female and I didn't notice you were male. Oh, well--I've lost 25 pounds, but it took 50 days, and I'm very happy with that. If I can keep it off. But no diet does any good unless you can stick with it for the rest of your life.

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Are you happy with obama so far?On a scale from 1 to 10,what do you give him so far? About a 1.5. At least he has personal dignity, unlike Bill Clinton, but everything he's done has been a disaster for the economy and he is spineless in foreign policy. The man doesn't know how to legislate, which is good, because the programs he proposes will be catastrophic and utterly ruin our economy.

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Is there an alternate and stronger drug to use, since Dramamine doesn't work for me? (OTC or prescription) You're talking about anti-nausea? On airplanes, ships and so forth, wear an eye-patch. Nausea often comes from conflicting input systems and an eye patch eliminates one of them. I always keep one handy in my airplane bag!

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Dontcha just wanna kick the dude clear across the room, who insists on BLOWING HIS NOSE at the DINNER TABLE? Every time I witness someone filling up his "booger vault" while I'm eating, I wanna reach for my shotgun. Don't invite me to dinner, then, or at least don't do two things: Don't put any pepper in any of the dishes, and don't block me in on the far side of the table so that I can't leave it two or three times during the meal. I don't do it on purpose to annoy you, but I do do it because I can't help it. Either I blow it out or it comes dripping out on my...

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For $1 million, would you drink all of your meals for a year? I will underbid all the people who say "Yes!" and take $900,000. I've already drunk all my meals for the last seven weeks. It's the only way I can lose weight.

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Why do Americans hate Socialism so? It destroys incentive all around. Just think of moving it into a classroom. A greaser who puts in homework every night, all during vacations and even during the summer gets his right answers taken away and spread around the half dozen schmucks who drink till the bars close. Next test he won't bother studying, and probably neither will they.

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They sell us cigarettes that causes deadly diseases, wether they warn us or not. Doesn't that make them killers? You're leading up to the logical question, "Then why shouldn't we outlaw them? Or tax them to death?" And the answer is that if we do, then the REAL killers, the Mafia, will take over distribution, just as they do with marijuana, cocaine and heroin, just as they did when alcohol was outlawed during Prohibition. You've always gotta ask "What happens next?"

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Was Robinhood a hero or a villain? When we say that he "took from the rich and gave to the poor," we have to understand that he was taking BACK from the rich and giving BACK to the poor. The nobility and the clergy, mostly from another country, were bleeding the poor white unjustly and exploiting them in many other ways.

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Are all right wing radio talk personalities inherently rude? Can you name one who isn't? Do they start out rude or gradually become rude? Dennis Prager is conservative, respectful, and polite.

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Even though I'm agnostic I sometimes really crave for afterlife. I fantasize about a place of complete bliss & wish there (indisputably) was afterlife. When I think logically everything fades away and I feel desperate and empty. what do you think I do? Dennis Prager suggested that some may be an agnostic more out of laziness than conviction, and that they should try the religious life for a year. You sound like such a person. That means going to services--probably the same faith you were born into, unless it was abusive. And it especially means asking questions. Yesterday someone asked me "How could God create so many billions of...

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Did you use to fight with your brother/sister when you were growing up? Do you regret the fights now that all of you are grown? Yes, and I apologized to him for it because he was the younger and I was the bully. I also suggested that he keep most of our parents' inheritance in compensation, and just took the little I actually needed for a used vehicle because mine went belly up.

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In a Democracy the will of the people rules. Why do obstructionists continue to fight against the will of the majority? To prevent the tyranny of the majority, that's why. The Democrat majority in Congress wants to impose taxes not just on the minority but on about three generations to come--who don't get to vote on it. The men who wrote the Constitution intentionally put in many checks to stop a majority from riding roughshod over the minority. Best example is the electoral college, without which...

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[What are the] BEST SHOES SNEAKERS FOR FOOT PAIN WHILE WORKING? Back when I had to stand up all day I got crepe-soled construction-worker shoes. 12, 13, 14 hour days all week.

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Have you ever ran an animal over? :'-(.. i just did this morning! I've read that it's better to hit an animal than to swerve. Hit the brakes or hit the animal, but don't try to swerve, you might roll your vehicle and there's no guarantee you'll survive.

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Do you realize that a lot of the "instant" meals sold in grocery stores are LOADED with preservatives/sodium? Stop killing yourselves people. At my age, I need all the preservatives I can get! They're probably what's keeping me alive!

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I work a day job full time at 13 dollars an hour and cant meet my rent/bills, I'm newly single with no friends or family that can help me financially at all. I'm beautiful, in shape and only 25, and I'm thinking about becoming an exotic dancer.... I hope you can either find a roomie to share rent or a part-time job, because in these days of cameras everywhere and the internet, your children will find out about it from their classmates and it will make life very hard for them. Go to MoneyRulesDebtStinks.com for many different ways to balance your budget. Many people your age don't, for example, know the difference between...

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R.I.P. Micheal Jackson. What are your thoughts of the death of the king of pop? Correct me if I've got my statistics wrong, but he lived fifteen years longer than the average rock star or homosexual. Statistically average, I mean.

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What do you think of a woman who can not change the oil in her own car? I used to change my oil until the quickchange places opened up. Now it is absolutely not worth it to do-it-yourself. You barely break even and if you do your total time was worth maybe a dollar an hour. When they do it, there are no spills and no pollution--when you do it, maybe so, maybe not.

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What is the greatest rock song ever written, and why? Brandy, by Looking Glass, a one-hit wonder Or Killing Me Softly by Aretha Franklin. Billy Joel's "For the Longest Time"--favorite music video.

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Can you believe Micheal Jackson just died? I'd just like to point out that "cardiac arrest" is no explanation. Cardiac arrest means that the heart stops beating. When the heart stops beating, of COURSE you're dead; your brain goes unconscious almost immediately from lack of oxygen and dies five minutes later. But why did the heart stop? That's the question. Either they'll find a physical cause, or it...

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America was not formed for the benefit of the racists, extremists, terrorists or any other fringe group. It was formed for the masses. America was formed to get away from these fringe groups. It is not their country. What do you think? America was not formed for "the masses." It was formed for individuals--those individuals who agree to live under its Constitution. The "masses" are a Communist concept--the idea that if you are a certain race, gender or class, you have the same ideas and interests as everyone else in that race, gender or class.

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Why is it that Obama's detractors like to throw the word "socialism" around but when asked can rarely give any specific examples of the socialist overthrow of the country? Socialists don't usually "overthrow" countries, they take over by free elections, as they have in Norway, Sweden, England, France, Italy... These are not pure socialisms since small private businesses are allowed, but they are essentially socialist countries run by openly socialist parties. Obama's policies are the same as theirs are, so why does he object to being...

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If it only takes one match to start a forrest fire, why on earth does it take me a whole box of matches and a can of lighter fluid to light my grill? When you lay a fire, you put paper first, kindling next, twigs and branches and firewood on top. That arrangement happens by accident all over a forest, wherever there are dried leaves or dry grass under brushwood. Charcoal, however, has a much higher kindling temperature than paper, dried leaves or grass; and it has much less surface area. You couldn't light a board on fire with a...

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If you were a police officer, what kinds of crimes would you want to put an end to White slavery. I think the pimps who run that should be put on a chain gang in a Louisiana swamp for the rest of their worthless lives.

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All the Presidents prior to George W. Bush had a least one book under their belt, and most had written several white papers during their education or early careers. Why not so with President Bush? He was too busy learning to fly a jet plane, which takes about as much effort as writing a book. Like him or not, he did what was considered impossible on September 12, 2001. His administration stopped every single terrorist attack against Americans since that time, except those on the battlefield. There isn't a single person in the world who would have predicted that, seven and a...

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I have black hair and fair skin and I hate it, what should I do? Use red makeup. Red, white and black are a killer color combo.

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Is barack obama musilum? I would describe him as a "baptized Black Muslim." In other words, his actual beliefs are very close to Black Islam, but there are churches like Trinity United Church of Christ on the south side of Chicago that adapted Black Muslim racist radicalism to Christian vocabulary. Sprinkle a little water on a Black Muslim and he's still a Black Muslim--but he can get on easier in...

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Is it better to reign in Hell or serve in Heaven? In your opinion, which is better? Even if you don't believe in either. Theoretically, which would you prefer? This is what Satan says in Milton's "Paradise Lost," but he's deluding himself. He won't be running the place anymore after Judgement Day, he'll be in the worst place getting the worst punishment.

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Girls, how many times in your life did a man force you to do something you did not want to do? I am 15 and have had sexual encounters with every man I ever knew, I am curious if it happens to others, other than me:( Honey, these men are criminals and should be in prison. Please go to the principal of your school, the police chief in your town, someone in authority who will keep these criminals from exploiting you before they leave you diseased and pregnant and confused for the rest of your life. No matter what they tell you, they don't love you. They are just using you. This is not the normal...

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If everything is possible no matter the odds will everything happen when given infinite time and is anything impossible? No, everything will NOT happen despite the odds. Take, for example, the accumulation of chemicals that are required for even the simplest life form. It is true that if you put together the right chemicals, and only the right chemicals, and take away any products that would poison the result, and concentrate the results, the chemicals of life like DNA and RNA could form spontaneously....

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Do you think that the Jewish people, myself included, are evil? There is nothing you can say about all Jews except that all of them have a rational fear of being persecuted for their Jewishness. Jews as a people are far more able than most--something like 30% of Nobel prizes in science, medicine and economics go to Jews. On the other hand, one of the vilest men in history was a Jew who became a Lutheran before going on to Satanism--Karl Marx. His...

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Why do you 'work' at all? Because virtually every single thing that human beings desire and need can only be obtained by some kind of work. Even if you lived somewhere where you could find enough plant food to be satisfied by wandering around, and it was an island where you needed no clothing, you'd still have to make a smooth place to sleep at night and something to cover yourself with. Also because the idle...

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Can you tell me an interesting superstition that I've never heard? In Ukraine, it's bad luck to return home for something you've forgotten. (So they try hard not to leave without thinking of everything, which makes it a good superstition.) If you whistle, you'll lose your money. In parts of Africa, if you die from malaria or dengue fever, it's not because an infected mosquito bit you; it's because a witch sent that particular...

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If we were created by God, then who created God? And who created God's creator, etc.? God is a spirit, which we define as a mind without any physical components. We don't understand anything about spirits, how they can exist, where they can come from et cetera. We have no reason to believe that spirits need to be created. Perhaps if we could go into the spirit world, we would find that time, space, and causality mean nothing to spirits. The most coherent information...

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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because if he crossed HIMSELF, everyone would think he was High Church.

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Who's worse: right wing wackos or left wing wackos? The left wing has a strong utopian ideal and a totalitarian method. In other words, they want to make the world perfect, and are willing to force you to do more and more and more until it becomes so. And when i say "force" I mean with guns, dogs, chains, barbed wire and whips. I live in a formerly Communist country (Ukraine) where literally a third of the people were intentionally...

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The light in my microwave has stopped working, it's less that a year old so should I take it back and if I do what would I get/what should I ask for? New one or a repair? With out the light I cannot see if the food is cooking ok. Hmm... how many blondes does it take to change a light bulb in a microwave?

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A neutral handshaker is likeable by all, how should one deal with Power Hand shaker? (One who offers you a handshake with his palms facing down) It's funny how customs are different in different countries. I live in Ukraine, came here very soon after it opened up and helped convoy a lot of valuable humanitarian aid here. I've never done much to build up my arm & hand strength and when a little arthritis set in sometimes after the powerful handshakes I'd get I couldn't type for three days. I was about to get...

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Has your boss given you an 'atta-girl / atta-boy' lately? I got an atta-girl from my boss today. He actually said, 'you did a great job'! Mine said that the quality of my work makes him embarrassed about the quality of his own.

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Is the New Testament Anti-Semitic? I would add to my answer above: If you misinterpret it it seems antisemitic. For example, the Jewish mob said to Pontius Pilate, "His blood be on ourselves and our children." During the Middle Ages that was used as an excuse to persecute them, and perhaps it still is. But an understanding that goes along with the spirit of Jesus is that the blood of Christ is available to forgive...

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What was the main motive of Israel to increase, in the Six Day War? They had to get it over in six days because the Jews were renting their tanks by the week.

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I am trying to reconcile that Jesus and Michael the Archangel are one and the same. I just can't get it can someone please explain so that I can understand. Thank you. They aren't! Daniel 10:12 says "Michael, one of the chief princes..." Jesus is not "one of" the chief princes. He is not "one of" anything! He is the One and Only, the First and the Last, the Alpha and Omega. And the idea that He is Michael is a fable. A logical fable, but a fable nonetheless.

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What would be an effective deterrent against crime? The best rules for keeping order and preventing crime--have to be the best ideas. We have been trying to think up ways to deter crime for a long time now, and failing miserably. A source of ideas that nobody seems to have thought of is the Bible, which has ways of stopping crime that were effective for 1500 years. One such is corporal punishment instead of prisons. Why leave someone idle...

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In these modern times does an everyday common bodily function like a sneeze really warrant a response like "GOD BLESS YOU"? We know are souls are not going to escape from our bodies... don't we by now? It's an old tradition that goes back to the Black Plague. During the Black Plague, an unexpected sneeze could mean you'd be dead within 24 hours. English people said "God bless you!" Central and eastern Europeans said "Be healthy!" (Gesundheit, na zdorovya, et cetera.)

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Where did God come from? All the universe was created by God; before God created there was neither matter nor energy, nor even time nor empty space--not even a big stretch of empty cold dark vacuum. Only God. We know nothing whatever about God, because God is a spirit, and we know nothing whatever about the spirit universe. Nothing had to create Him because, perhaps, spirits just are; and perhaps they need neither...

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Do you think "Global Warming" is a real serious problem, or is it exaggerated? American scientists--who get incredible amounts of money from the government to say so--tell us that there will be global warming. Russian scientsts--who just study the solar system and don't get this kind of money--tell us that we're headed into another Little Ice Age. And isn't that what this month's National Geographic finally admitted? That the sun is strangely quiet...

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Could France become a Muslim country? How could it not? There is not only the fact that all Europeans are committing race suicide by not having 2.1 babies per woman, and the fact that Muslims continue to immigrate and have large families. There is also someplace in the Koran that says, almost in so many words that when Muslims reach one tenth of the population, that they should take control of it. The future of Europe is...

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What do you think of the name Jourden? Why not give the poor kid something they won't have to spell for every single person they ever meet, business or pleasure?

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If you could instantly kill any one person on the planet, who and why? Kim Jong Il of North Korea. Truly the vilest and most evil fiend on the planet. Nobody else even comes close, and there is hardly anyone whose death wouldn't do the world more good--except that unfortunately he's probably trained somebody else to take his place when he goes to hell.

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Christians, how do you justify tolerating other religions knowing Christ is the only way to Heaven? Tolerating means not forcing--and if you think that the Christian religion can be forced on anyone, you don't understand anything about it. People have gone to church for years and decades, listened to sermons, tried to believe, wanted to believe, and couldn't--but then all of a sudden their eyes were opened and they did. This also happened to me. You could not possibly have forced...

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When do you think most clearly? While listening to the Dennis Prager show.

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What do you consider to be old technology? I'm working with three other men on a Bible translation. They use nothing but computers, I use mostly books and a pencil. But I do have an electric sharpener!

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If everything is made of energy then what made energy? You're really asking "What is the first cause of everything?" The easy answer is "God." Then someone will say "What made God?" The answer to that is "God is a spirit, not made of matter and energy. We know absolutely nothing about spirit and spirits. It may be that they don't have to be caused or created, but are simply eternal, without...

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Why does the Muslim religion treat the women of their faith so badly.? tell them what to do,what where,who to marry ect. There are also other religions that treat women badly. On the other hand, the Jewish and Christian religions have elevated the state of women far above what it ever was in the pagan world around it, and have done more for women than anything else. Many feminists will never admit this, however, because so many of them are utopians and demand perfection. Nothing less than perfection seems to...

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How do you feel about polygamy? Who needs two mothers-in-law?

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Do you think that the brain in humans can ever get to a point where it is holding too much information like an overload of knowledge? Also is that what forgetting stuff is? Because you have too much information and the other stuff is like deleted? Our "wetware"--our brain--is something like a computer but not exactly. We can increase our RAM and the size of our hard disk, not by installing a bigger one, but the same way we increase the size and power of our muscles, by exercising them a lot. But muscles can only be built up to a certain limit. The brain's limitations are different. Sometimes it's just a matter...

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Other then your own country, which country do you admire the most? I'm an American and think that Australia is the best country in the Southern Hemisphere--or the Eastern, for that matter. In every international dispute they are always on the side of what's good and right.

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If someone raped your wife, daughter, or mother-could you kill that person and/or would you kill that person, or could you ever forgive the perp? This is almost a hypothetical question. You don't have to forgive those who don't repent, and show that they repent by their actions. How often does a rapist do that? One time in a million? Ten million? There is also the fact that you can only forgive sins committed against you. The rapist has sinned against his victim, but he has also sinned against all the victim's...

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I am going to write a series of short stories about five girls who are best friends but I don't know what could happen. What do you think? If you need to ask other people for ideas, you're never going to be a writer. Not only do you have to know what's going to happen, and have the end in mind before you begin, you also have to know how to keep twisting the plot to keep the reader's interest. I'd recommend Jeffrey Archer's stories and novels to learn how to do that; he's a master of it.

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Can you finish this joke? Yo momma so... Yo momma so old, she used to see the rainbow in black and white!

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Does it anger or even just piss you off to no end that corporations keep making packaging smaller and smaller yet charging more and more for products the way they do with coffee, sugar, ice cream and so on? Prices are set by supply and demand, and supply is set by costs of manufacturing. Corporations are no more greedy today than they were last year or ten years ago. The amount of greed they have is the same year after year. But when taxes go up, or regulations get harder, when interest or raw materials cost more, or when Obama gives an order to print a trillion dollars in new and unbacked...

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Is it judgemental to chose NOT to be around someone who is a chronic liar?, In spite of the many failed attempts to help them acknowledge and recover. Thanks Of course it's judgemental--but being judgemental is good. The reason it's got a bad reputation is that people misunderstand the basis for thinking it's wrong. Jesus said "Judge not, that you be not judged." This doesn't mean "Do not judge." It means "So as not to be judged, don't judge others." If, however, you don't MIND...

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What is Screen Saver. And Why it is Used? 63% of the time, it's just a piggyback for viruses.

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What is Screen Saver. And Why it is Used? 80% of the time, it just serves as a piggyback for viruses.

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Is it true that if everybody in China jumped at the same time it would knock the Earth out of orbit? No, because when they pushed upward and the earth went downward, in less than a second the earth's gravity would pull them back downward--but THEY would pull the earth back UP-ward. Think of it as a simple two-body problem. If the only thing in the universe were two giants with the soles of their shoes in contact, and one jumped, he would push himself up and the other down--but gravity...

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If God loves us all, why isn't His love strong enough to save us all from hell? Is our freewill stronger than His love? Do you think that God might have a much greater and loving plan than we realize? You said "us all"--I'm glad you didn't say "all people". There are people like Mao, Stalin and Hitler who were so vile and wicked--especially Mao--that I hope they're in hell.

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How many Bibles are there in your house? The best one to have is the four-column Zondervan Comparative Study Bible. Although I read Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, you can get almost as much out of a good four-column as you can out of knowing the original.

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If Evolution is all about survival of the fittest, why does humanity allow the reproduction of the mentally and physically handicapped? No other living thing does that... Well, if you are a consistent and unsentimental evolutionist, like Adolf Hitler, you will gas all of your "useless eaters" in the interest of eugenics. But the eugenics movement just turned out to be another piece of "progressive" hysteria. They warned that if we let the "inferior" breed, average IQ would fall. Except that it's risen steadily since that...

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Why do people say "God must have needed another angel" if someone dies suddenly and tragically. Is there any scriptural basis for God causing events leading to death because he needs someone more than their family and loved ones on earth? There is no Scriptural basis whatsoever. This is just a pious-sounding superstition. (Superstition: Any supernatural belief that has no basis in Scripture.) For that matter, Scripture never says we become angels; Jesus said that the resurrected are LIKE the angels. It is Mormon, not Trinitarian Christian, theology that some people (unmarried women, I think) become angels when they die.

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When a convict is to executed by lethal injection, why do they bother to sterilize the needles? All needles are sterilized automatically as the millions of them come out of the factories. To unsterilize a needle would be like asking for a Big Mac without mayo. They'll do it but they won't like it, and if a lot of people asked for it they'd charge extra.

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Was The Roman Empire to big to fail? Anything that's too big to fail is too big period. Bust it up, as Teddy Roosevelt said and did. We are lucky if government regulators are only one crisis behind; one of the biggest reasons for the current financial meltdown is that finance companies developed new derivatives faster than the government could react and regulate it. So these behemoths should be prevented from...

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Is it better to 'Love' or Be Loved? In Flanders fields the poppies grow amid the crosses, row on row, That mark our place. And in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We--are the Dead. Short days ago We loved, and were loved, and now we lie in Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe; To you with failing hands we throw Our torch--be yours to hold it high! If...

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Should Oprah Winfrey accept that she is a big woman? The results of her diets don't seem to last too long and isn't that unhealthy? Every time she goes on a diet she makes another ten million dollars, so why not yo-yo?

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Do the benefits which world religions give to us out-weigh any and all negatives? (placing aside whether or which God we believe in) and is there a place for religion in the modern world? Religions have to be evaluated by their works. Some are good and some are obviously evil. Some have a bad history which they have outgrown, but others have a bad history which is getting worse. At MichaelCrichton.com he has a very good essay on environmentalism as religion and points out that some impulses in human nature are so strong that if you suppress them in one place they pop out...

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One guy lives an evil life and harms people and on his death bed he says "I'm sorry" and he's forgiven and gets to go heaven. Another guy lives his life according to the rules and hurts no one and he gets to go to heaven as well. How is this fair? I actually knew a man who repented of a sinful life on his deathbed, literally two minutes before they took him away to the operating room--from which he went straight to the morgue. But you have to understand that whenever a sinner repents--on his deathbed or 50 years before it--he is saying to God "Please take me to a place where it will be impossible for me to sin anymore, and where I...

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If I want to learn something, I start good with lots of interest, but after 2 or 3 sessions, I give up without my knowledge and loose interest in it. Whether it is exercise or learning piano, or even reading a book. How do I get out of this? My son had the same habit. He tried three other instruments and gave up but by the time he got to piano he knew enough about music that it got him "over the hump," gave him his second wind, and he went on to play pretty well. So you need to break down a desireable task into smaller steps, like he did. Doing it with a friend might help, too.

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Shouldn't the Pope either execute all the pedophile priests, or just make it official and ordain R Kelly? He should put them all into the same monastery, for life, under house arrest. The pope doesn't have the authority to execute anyone, nor is that any part of his job description.

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Can you read a different language? Latin, Greek, Hebrew, German, Ukrainian, Russian, a little French and Spanish.

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For the last year, when i get my hands wet even for 1 min, they go very dry and if i am in the shower say 15 minutes then they are very soar.i have been to the docs and got epaderm cream but it is not working. Does anyone know of something that may work? After you rub in the hand cream, try rubbing on some Vaseline to keep it there. I also put on both hand cream and Vaseline before doing something like a shower or the dishes, at least in winter when they get dry.

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Ever done anything crazy with a bunch of beer bottles? Well, I knew this guy who went into a bar and ordered up four bottles at once. Bartender said "The place is almost empty! You can order one at a time!" But he paid cash, so what the heck. Then he ordered three, and drank them. Then he ordered two. When he finally ordered just one, the barman said "What the heck are you doing?" Dude said "Trying to figure...

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Where did you live as a child and where do you live now? Born in Chicago, last 16 years in Ternopil, Ukraine.

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Question for people who believe in the hereafter, will our pets be with us after death? Sure hope so, love my Spunky! In the Old Testament, animals are definitely pictured as part of the afterlife, so that belief would be carried into the New Testament. Now, not every animal will be there. Why would they be? Who would need wasps and spiders and snakes? But St. Paul said (I Corinthians 13) "Love never fails"--I can't imagine any reason why the God who created an animal that loves us so...

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If you had all the money in the world...what single item would you purchase? Kind of a silly question--the total money supply in the United States is greater than a year's gross domestic product, so presumably with all the money in the world you could buy everything everyone would produce that year. But if you DID have it, the first thing to "purchase" would be one heck of a big army.

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I am going to volunteer in a poor village in south america. What do you think I should bring with me as small gifts to give to the people and children of the community? Garden seeds, not of hybrids which are no good after the first year's crop, but seeds of various kinds of fruits and vegetables which they may not even have down there. Find out from customs if you can bring them or whether they'll be confiscated at the border. You may find a seed company which will give you a whole suitcase full of last year's seeds if you'll pay the...

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Why does a negative number times a negative number equal a positive number? And how can I explain it to my 11 year old daughter? (She doesn't get it.) Try using X-Y axes. Five up and five right encloses an area of 25, and five down and five left encloses an area of 25, but the upper left and lower right areas are like borrowed land--you have to give back 25 squares just to have zero. When he says he doesn't understand it, you tell her that there has to be someplace to represent borrowing, and that's it. And if she STILL...

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I am a 18 years old boy and lot of people say my face is "cute".. the kind that attracts homos..And actually i find it quite true..And they really creep me out...PLEASE..Can't i do something? Hmm... would facial hair and eyeglasses help? That's one of the few things a man can do to change the way his face looks.

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Do you think that there is anything wrong with Michael Jackson? Do you think he is guilty or innocence for child molestation? As to Michael Jackson--someone remarked that Social Security takes money from young black men and gives it to older white women so that only Michael Jackson comes out even.

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What do you think Thomas Jefferson's reaction would be to the USA if he were alive today? He would say "That government governs best that governs least--so get rid of the Department of Energy, the Department of Education, the Department of Agriculture, the I.R.S., the income tax, and repeal the 17th and 19th Amendments. And NEXT week...."

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What does everyone think of Obama's new law? He's trying to say that if a dr refuses to do an abortion due to religion or whatnot that they either have to or go to jail. And what about the gun control? Is the US going to how it was with Hitler? You're quite right, though most of the other commentators don't agree because they're getting their news from the mainstream media which is ignoring these important matters. Obama IS withdrawing the conscientious-objection right for medical people who don't want to assist abortions, and his attorney general IS working on restricting gun rights, one step after another. Just...

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Do you agree that a "Flat" or "Fair" tax (and abolishing the IRS and the income tax) is the answer? Amen! It's the only way to do several things: Keep Congressmen from doling out tax advantages in exchange for votes. Make the underground economy pay taxes. Bring hundreds of billions of investment money back onshore. Reward saving and investing, punish excess consumption. And make tax prep simple--or do you like the time you have to spend filing income taxes every year?

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Why are so many religious people hostile to atheism and atheists? It might have something to do with the hundred million innocent people who were murdered by atheists in the 20th century, mostly after starvation, torture and slave labor.

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A friend of mine on AB said, "the Repubs want Obama to fail where they can get their power and $$$ back!" Do you believe that the Repubs think more of their pocketbook, than their country? Sure that will get some negatives..loll.. Before the election Obama said "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America!" To which I say, Go to hell. We like it the way it is. If you can manage to improve it, fine. That's what we've been trying to do since the day it was founded. But to fundamentally change it? Into what, exactly? A failing European-style socialism?

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Everyone want peace in world but why not peace in world till now? The only time in world history when there was nearly universal peace was the Pax Augustana, a 200 year period when Rome had both the power and the will to impose peace on everyone within its borders. Sometimes horrifically, as in Jerusalem, 70 AD. Since that time no superpower has had both the power and the will to do it. Since the foundation of Islam universal peace has become...

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Does telling racist jokes or laughing at them make you a racist? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. On the one extreme, any "joke" about lynching or the Holocaust puts the teller outside of the bounds of decent society. On the other hand, almost all Swedish or Norwegian jokes are good-natured, clever anecdotes about people that we all like. And there are a lot of rules and exceptions between those two extremes. If a Jew tells me a Jewish joke,...

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Who else on AB is a Cancer like me? I'm not a Cancer, but have been called a pestilence.

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Why people beat their dogs? Because they are both dumber and more cruel than a dog. When a dog wants to teach another dog, usually the mother teaching her puppies, she grasps in by the throat or neck with her teeth and growls. If YOU want to teach a dog, do the same thing. If it does something wrong, you take it by the neck or throat, not roughly, shake it just a little and growl as you say "No!" Dogs...

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Are those little buttons that keep the collar of men's button-down shirts only supposed to be buttoned when a man is wearing a tie? A couple of my co-workers are having a debate on this subject... The button-down collar was invented because it is the only way to keep a collar from losing its shape eventually, and just flopping around sloppily like they do on any other kind of shirt when it gets old. But button-down collars look good for the life of the shirt--as long as they stay buttoned.

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What animals excisted during mezoic era? My dog Nipper.

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What is a fair price for gasoline (petro)? There is no such thing as a "fair" price, just a price that a particular person is willing to pay at a particular time and place. If you have a lot of money, you'll be willing to pay a lot for gas. If you're poor, you'll only be willing to pay a little. If you've gotta get someplace you'll pay more; if you can walk, hitch a ride or take the bus you'll...

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Imagine there's a 15 x 15 foot carpet in the middle of a room. Someone places a giant diamond in the middle of it and says "if you can grab this diamond without setting foot on this carpet, you can have it." How would get the diamond? Roll up the carpet.

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The Japanese made a videogame where the sole purpose is to rape women. I'm a pretty liberal guy, but what the hell were those producers thinking? And do you think it'll make it's way to the U.S. and other countries easily? What's especially sick is that, apparently, Amazon is selling it. If this is true, everyone should boycott Amazon.

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I've only had an answerbag account for a couple of weeks. Already, I feel myself getting addicted. Is this healthy? At least it's human interaction, of a sort. And how else could there be a meet-up group with enough answerers to answer the questions, and how would it self-sort? Most of us are interested in a lot of different areas.

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Why would creationists rather be the descendents of dirt than monkeys? The book of Genesis says that God spoke everything else into existence, in categories and classes. But the creation of man--done at the end of Creation Week--was the pinnacle of creation, and done with God's special and personal attention. We are not "descendants of dirt" but were made "in the image and likeness of God." Unfortunately, the first two people lost the...

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Is it easier to be nice or mean? Depends on the person. I was born mean and have to fight it. My daughter, on the other hand, has always been a very sweet girl.

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Can you name something that must be cooked at a fairly precise temperature? We're told that coffee should be brewed at 205 degrees to get the flavor without the bitterness.

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What is the purpose of photosynthesis? To provide food and oxygen to almost every kind of organism on earth. Without it you'd only have a few anaerobic weirdities like iron bacteria and the extremophils that grow around volcanic ocean vents.

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Is there a home remedy for reducing swelling/inflamation in an absessed tooth..other than penicillin..maybe a over the counter product which has penicillin in it? Penicillin is not a home remedy and probably wouldn't help a tooth abscess since there is very little circulation that gets to an abscess. You might try placing a clove next to it to help with the pain, but a tooth abscess often means you need a root canal. Don't mess around with home remedies unless you're willing to risk losing it. See a dentist.

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What's the strangest thing you have found on the street? Found? What looked like a square of worthless pink paper, and turned out to be a folded Canadian $50 bill. I keep my eyes on the sidewalk whenever I go anywhere, and haven't had to buy a pencil or pen in thirty years. A lot of coins, too. But seen? I was walking down the street in Ternopil, Ukraine, and twice found things that were placed by a person's front gate to put a...

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Ever discover a sandwich you made that you are sure no one has tried before? What were your ingredients? I live in Ukraine where we have some quite interesting "sandwiches." You'd think nothing would be worse than a mashed potato sandwich, but what they do is fold some mashed potatoes with salt and onion inside a dough wrapper, deep-fry it and serve it hot. They do the same thing with sauerkraut after rinsing most of the stink out of it. Also boiled dried peas, with a little...

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Would you rather find out your 12 year old son is having sex or smoking pot? Get serious. If he's smoking pot, he might ruin his life, but if he's having sex he might ruin somebody else's as well. It's MUCH more serious than smoking pot.

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What color should i paint my bedroom? list your top 5 colors or color combinations. The important thing is to paint the ceiling the same color you pick for the room--NOT white like every other ceiling in America. People paint ceilings white because it reflects more light, but that's not what you want in a bedroom. We once had a living room with a fireplace and painted the walls and ceiling pastel green. It was the only room in my life I specifically think of as...

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John McCain has announced he's in the hunt for the 2012 Presidential Nomination. Will he be your choice in 2102? If not him, then which Republican? See LINK: Senator McCain needs to realize that most of us who pulled the McCain lever weren't voting for McCain, we were voting against Obama. The only reason he got the nomination was that he was the last man standing, and a big reason why he was the last man standing was that he managed to rig it that way by cutting a deal with the Democrats known as the McCain-Feingold Campaign...

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Since God never changes, does that mean He still regrets ever creating people? You need to understand that the Bible often speaks of God in anthropomorphic and anthropopathic language, as though He looked and felt the way we do. This is for the convenience of the young, uneducated, and simple-minded, because God is literally incomprehensible to our limited minds. When it said that God regretted creating people, it means that his action was not the arbitrary whim of...

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Does male Testosterone have any thing to do with men taking more risks...? Of course. As John Paul Jones observed, it seems to be a law of nature that there is no great reward without great risk, and to get those great rewards men are willing to take great risks. Women--and this is an observable fact, not an opinion--will not enter any profession in large numbers until most of the risks have been removed. The exceptions don't annul the rule.

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Can someone be gay and still be against gay marriage? I can't remember the man's name, but he described himself as a kneejerk gay liberal and yet published a twenty-page, closely reasoned rejection of same-sex marriage because acceptance of it would tend to bring about the slow collapse of society. He was interviewed on the Dennis Prager Show a couple of years ago.

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What are those purple things that grow on potatoes The one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eater (since he became a vegan).

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In relation to : http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/167395 See songofjoy's answer re: Genesis 17:12 If God commanded it, why are Christian males not circumcised? This is not intended as an anti-Christian question - I really want to know A very simple explanation, not quite exact but good enough for most purposes is that Old Testament laws fall into three categories: Civil laws for the Jewish state; ritual laws for the Jewish religion; and moral laws for all people of all times everywhere. The easiest way to know whether a law is a moral law is to see if it is repeated in the New Testament. Circumcision was just a...

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Sushi is ...................................! What we used to call fishbait.

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Which mammal sleeps the most hours in a day? The dormouse.

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Why do you think most Jews deny the New Testament? One big reason is that until very recently many Christians tried to force their beliefs on Jews. This was especially true in Europe. In America, however, Christians learned to tell Jews that being Jewish is a good thing, you should maintain your Jewish culture and language, but that you should also reconsider why so many Jewish people--starting with the Apostles--believed that Jesus of...

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Do you think that US economic stimulus plan should give money to people to pay for their houses? Lucybell, the government can't give you a house without taxing some other house out of existence. It can't give you a job without taxing some other job out of existence. It can't give you ANYTHING without taxing something else out of existence. The government doesn't have any money of its own. The money it has, it takes from you. You may look at the government grant...

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Does power corrupt? Should senate/house terms be limited? Term limits are absolutely necessary. If those schmucks in Congress had to come out and live like the rest of us with hospitals closing because of illegal immigrants for instance, they'd be more careful about the laws they pass.

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Tell me 5 words you'd wish to hear? The Obamas have switched parties!

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No matter what new people I meet and mistakes I learn from, I ALWAYS keep making new enemies! How do I ONLY make friends and positive relationships from now on? The best practical advice I can give you (and I was born with an abrasive personality) is to read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People." It will change your whole way of thinking, so much so that you may have to read it three or four times. But it's a good and enjoyable read with lots of very striking stories, well written and you'll be very glad...

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Why do people feel the need to attack others who believe in God on this website by asking question they know will envoke a heated debate? Because atheists aren't atheists; they are anti-theists. If they were atheists they wouldn't trouble themselves about an invisible someone who doesn't exist. But since they hate what God stands for and His power to affect people, they hate and attack Him. ("Atheism" literally means "no-God-ism." Antitheism would be "against-God-ism.")

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What's the most Sinister human Psychological Phenomenon...? Megalomania in a successful ideological politician.

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Do Americans on this site get annoyed by ENGLISH English spelling? Americans are such poor spellers that most of us don't even notice, and those who do don't care. Sometimes it isn't comprehensible--lots of us don't know that "gaol" means "prison" and is pronounced "jail"--but usually it's not any kind of problem at all. Sometimes it confuses us, is all. We don't know what a chemist is, what...

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Is it hard to make chainmail? Well, you draw hundreds of feet of wire by hand, keeping it hot and somehow pulling it through a hole. You form it into spirals and then cut circles apart that slightly overlap. You drill teeny holes in each end--does that require hammering flat? You make even smaller wire to form into rivets and then you join those circles of very small wire into chains, enough to cover most or all of a...

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Everything I hear from people who are Mormon concerning people who are not is... That is anti-Mormon, the anti-Mormons, they were anti-Mormons. Does this mean Mormons are anti Christian? Or Anti-anything that is not Mormon? You will have to decide for yourself whether Mormon beliefs are correct or not. I will just tell you that Mormonism and traditional Christianity are, because of their similarities, like a hundred-dollar bill and a counterfeit. If Mormonism is not false, traditional Christianity must be--but if traditional Christianity is ACTUAL Christianity, Mormonism must be counterfeit. I haven't...

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Genesis 1:26 " And God said Let us make man in our image after our likeness." Who is God talking to when He says 'us', and 'our' in that verse? And the next verse 27 states "So God created man in his OWN image". First it was 'our' then goes to 'own'.? In Christian theology--not some modern pseudo-scholarship and not what somebody imagines to be true--this has always been one of the foundational proof passages for the doctrine of the Trinity, that there are three distinct Persons who can all say "I am God" without there being three Gods. There is a whole boatload of newly-discovered Bible passages from the Old Testament that say...

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Do you know te definition of naivity? Not the dictionary version! Yeah. A bumper sticker that says "War is never the answer." I wish that were true--we all do--but it is terminally, FATALLY naive.

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What is your favorite Web site and what do you like about it? JewishWorldReview.com--and I'm not Jewish.

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I've had this girlfriend for 6 months. She know me by another name (not my real one), only knows my disposable cell number and has never been to my apartment. Do I have to break up with her or can I just walk away and never speak to her again? Yeah, do her a favor and tell her what a liar you are. Then you won't have to break up with her, she'll dump YOU.

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There must be at least 200 religions worldwide. Which one is right? I won't try to answer that for you, but an important question is "Which one is wrong?" If a religion regularly results in cruelty, murder, violence to women, oppression, tyranny, persecution of dissenters, and war, I think that that religion should be ruled out of consideration by anyone who realizes that God should be good and so should His followers.

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Which is better: your eyesight or your hearing? Although most of us would automatically answer "eyesight," if you lose your hearing you can no longer take very much part in society.

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What would be the worst cell phone ringtone to go off..and where? Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead at Hillary's funeral.

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Why are guys such jerks? You will get complete and useful answers to this question from Allison Armstrong at understandmen.org. Enjoy! For free samples, YouTube Allison Armstrong. Men should check this out, too. Men don't WANT to be jerks (as defined by women) but we don't know how unless somebody tells us. Back when I was dating I'd have given a lot for a book on how to treat girls....

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Name something that many husbands find themselves apologizing for? Being male. I'm quite serious. Men may not understand women, but women also do not understand men. As Allison Armstrong repeatedly says (understandmen.org) women think that a man is a hairy woman and that when he acts like men normally act, he's misbehaving--because if a woman did something like that--not remembering her birthday, not knowing what she wanted for her...

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How much does it cost to be happy? Sixpence, said Mr. Bumble in Oliver Twist. If you spend sixpence less than you earn, you can be happy, but if you spend sixpence more than you earn, you will be miserable. Gallup found that people all over the world think they need 20% more to be happy. I decided when I read that that I would be as happy as the guy making 20% less than me who thought he'd be happy if he made as much...

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Does anyone know if it is safe to use rock salt on an icy dirt driveway? My father said it can cause very soft dirt in the spring, the kind that's impossible to drive on, and my husband says he doesn't know what he's talking about, it's perfectly fine. Salt dissolves in rainwater and washes downhill. It may already be gone by spring. However, disagreeing with your father is problematic, so suggest to him an experiment: that you'll put salt on one half of the driveway but not the other. If one wheel starts to spin, the other one should get traction.

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Is Obama a Nitwit? All through his earlier life he made one bad decision after another. Jeremiah Wright. That g-d drunken Communist in Hawaii. His failure (self-confessed) as a community organizer. The fact that he's hidden his career, because he's ashamed of it. And now he's had like six scandals during his transition, which as I recall as more than Bush had during two terms. And we've...

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What animals, if any, are absolutely unedible? Jellyfish, for one. Sponge. Sea anemone. I suppose you meant land animals. Any carrion eater is a super-bad idea, and would probably taste like what it had been eating.

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What are the advantages of a US style, HMO based medical care system over a publicly funded one like Canada's? Some see to feel is offers superior access, better services and is cheaper all the way round. Do you agree? Why? Sally Pipes just published a short, readable book on what's wrong with the Canadian medical system. It's worth a look. Her own mother couldn't get a colonoscopy because of her age. When she did start bleeding, she spent two days at the emergency room waiting for a doctor and died within two weeks.

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Would you please name a piece of Classical music that was inspired by William Shakespeare? Mendellsohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Tschaikovsky's gorgeous Romeo and Juliet.

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What is a really good website? JewishWorldReview.com, the best editorials on the Web.

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What kind of apple did Eve eat in the Garden of Eden? The Bible doesn't say it was an apple. It was just "the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil." The type of fruit wasn't important, just that that one particular tree was on the restricted list--and with square miles of orchard and garden and all kinds of food going to waste, they had to go and defy God and steal something that wasn't theirs, instead of...

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What are your thoughts on the "Buy American" provision in the stimulus bill currently before the US Senate? Good thing or bad or somewhere in the middle? Please, no "Obama = socialist antichrist / Republicans = satanic fascists" rhetoric. One of the main factors making the Great Depression last as long as it did was the "Buy American" program of 1930, the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act. It slapped protective tariffs on all kinds of goods that were being produced in America but at a higher price. Other countries retaliated and world trade declined by half. Only World War II ended this foolishness. Protective tariffs do to...

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Why does the Baptist faith openly persecute the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints? (Anti-Mormon sunday school, books etc.) You are misusing the word "persecute." Baptists do NOT persecute Mormons, though they criticize them. Criticism is not persecution. The reason Baptists have strong criticism for Mormons is that Mormons do so much of their convert-seeking in a less than honest manner. Mormon beliefs are, frankly, weird from the viewpoint of Protestants and Catholics. And Mormons hide those...

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How can i become fatter?im really thin.im21 years old. This will seem like odd advice, but go on a reducing diet. Lose five pounds, gain it back. Lose it again, gain it back. Lose it again, gain it back. Each time you diet your metabolism will slow down a little and you'll burn fewer calories each day. Eventually you should gain a few pounds.

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If you can speak more than one language - which language do you dream in? I dream in English, German, Russian, and Ukrainian, frequently two languages in one dream. Once in a dream I was also reading Greek, but I don't know if that counts.

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Do you think Prince Charles will ever be King? Good Lord, spare us!

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What's a type of fairly strong (but not terribly so) mixed drink that's sweet and easy to make? Manhattan (shot of whisky or brandy, third of a shot of sweet vermouth on ice). Gimlet (shot of gin or vodka, whichever you prefer; half shot of Rose's Lime Juice. Don't drink too many of either. These are sippin' drinks.

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Why baby pigeon are cannot be seen? By the time they get out of the nest they are almost as big as adults.

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I have a friend who has excema, but she is allergic to aloe...does anyone know of anyone good treatments or lotions she could use? I've just heard that--once again--Vicks Vapo-Rub seems to be good for bad skin conditions. (I don't know about acne.) Give it a try and let us know!

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Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one? English is a very old language with roots in Anglo-Saxon, Old French, and Celtic. "Eleven" comes from a very old word in a dead dialect that literally means "one more than ten". It's easier to see where "twelve" comes from; in German, it's pronounced "tswelf." Here's the technical explanation from etymonline.com: Old English...

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Why do kids tattle-tell so much? This is one of the reasons why I personally dislike children. Sometimes tattling is good. Please look at this excellent article by a child psychologist: http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0109/hirschhorn_stupid_parenting_advice.php3

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Why do most maps show North at the top? It's an obvious choice. There is only one fixed direction point for geography, which is related to astronomy, and that is the North Star--the sun rises and sets farther north or south during the season, so it's not a fixed point. And the fixed point toward which everything tends is likely to be at the top of a page.

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Can you change one letter to make a different word? The word is "Time". Time>lime>lame>came>cane>can't. Time>tome>come>comb>womb>bomb Time>tame>dame>Dane>sane>sake>saki Time>mime>mine>dine>done>don't

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If someone is having trouble qualifying for a $110,000 loan, because they have too much credit card debt, and they were given a gift of $25,000, should they use that money to pay off the credit card, or use it as a down payment? Pay off the credit card! The interest on those things will eat you alive. And then, instead of trying to get a $110,000 mortgage, he should realize that he's better off renting. Owning a house is a lifestyle choice, rarely a good investment. For one thing, it limits your ability to take better job offers, or to find a job if you're laid off. If he's committing to...

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How does grass grow? The cells in it are long and thin. Periodically each one divides in half, and then each half grows to be the same length. This process repeats until it reaches maturity, then the leaves stop growing (the cells stop dividing) and all the plant's energy goes into seed production.

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Who likes donating blood? I'm always ready to share a pint! Besides, it's the only kind of volunteer work I can do lying down.

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When taking an over the counter drug, do you normally take the recommended dosage or do you exceed that amount? If it says "one or two" I always take one the first time, because the first time medicines seem to have a very strong effect on me. After that, either one or two depending on severity--and it's best to take one so your liver has less work to do. You'd have to be crazy to take more than that unless a doctor told you to. I knew a man who got to be 60 without realizing...

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How to get over depression? Depression is like a long, long staircase with a window at each landing. At each landing you stop and look at the tasks confronting you. If you choose to wallow in inaction, you will continue to go downwards. If you choose to either take action or change course so that that particular action isn't your only alternative, you may start lifting yourself up out of it. You will often be...

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Is sexual intercourse between married couples a form of worship, and if so where in the Bible can this be found? No, but there is a phrase something like that in the Book of Common Prayer. However, you have to remember that words add, change, and lose meanings over the centuries; and "worship" used to mean both worship and, simply, honor. In olden days some in authority--I forget whether it was only higher clergymen or also some of the nobility--were addressed as "your worship," but...

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What do you think the most famous quote from dreary poetry is? "They are neither man nor woman, They are neither beast nor human-- They are ghouls." Edgar Allen Poe

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Do you hope Socialisim fails in America, since it is not what made the U.S.A. great? Is their anybody out there besides Rush Limbaugh and I, who hope Obama's socialist policies fail? Technically, a socialist is someone who believes the government should own all of the cows. American leftists aren't technically socialists because they don't care who owns the cows, as long as the government gets almost all of the milk and doles out exactly equal amounts to everyone who is outside of the government. IN-side the government, you get more milk and richer milk the...

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Are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party? No, but I crashed a Communist party. It was in Ukraine in 1992. My boss talked our way into it, we feasted for hours, drank about a dozen toasts and listened to a bunch of anti-Russian ethnic jokes. You wouldn't have believed the amount of food and liquor on the table.

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What is a name of someone from Greek Mythology? There is the very sad tale of Orpheus whose wife Eurydice died. He was so terribly sad that he journeyed to the underworld to get her back, and played his lyre so beautifully that he persuaded the god of the dead to give her back--provided he didn't look behind him until they were on earth. He didn't look back until HE was on the earth, but SHE was still in the passage--and when he...

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In which country did porridge originate? Any culture that raised grain, or even harvested it wild, eventually thought of soaking it in hot water to soften it, and that's what porridge is. It would be easier to say in what countries it DIDN'T originate, such as the South Sea Islands, sub-Saharan Africa, Tasmania, and the Far North.

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Riddle: What is the one and only common ground all living things share? Adenosine triphosphate. Or, if you want to be less specific, metabolism.

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HOW IS OSAMA RELATED TO OBAMA? someone told their close realated, i dont belive them..DO YOU? Um, how is someone whose parents were each born a continent away from Osama supposed to be related to him? You're right not to believe this person.

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Should governments crack down on offshore tax havens? No, they should lower taxes so that people don't want to use them. The government already takes far more of our money than it needs to carry out essential functions. Unfortunately a lot of people have been convinced by demagogue politicians that they can't make it on their own without government help, and it costs a lot of money to help those people. And--unfortunately--about three...

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Dennis Prager thinks that men shouldn't have to wait for their wives to consent if they want sex. http://tinyurl.com/7vzmlt What do you think of this? You are misquoting and misunderstanding Prager and you should rephrase the question. What Prager said was--and I heard him carefully and what he said is backed up by what he wrote, see the link below--is that a woman with a very good husband who loves him would be wise to go along with his propositions even if she isn't in the mood at the time as a way to show her love for him and a way...

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Do you think that a persons soul leaves their body before they die? The definition of "death" in Christian theology is threefold: Spiritual death, as happened to Adam when he sinned: Separation of the soul from fellowship and harmony with God. Physical death, as happened when Jesus "gave up the ghost" on the Cross: Separation of the soul from the body. Eternal death, as happens after condemnation to hell: Separation of both...

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Why is Africa so rich today? What have YOU been smoking?

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My boyfriend is really smart(smartest in the whole school)and im average. well sometimes talking to him i feel really really stupid, i try to study to be smarter but i still dont get what he says, then he said i was clueless but it was cute. wht tht mean? If he was all that smart, he'd be able to explain things. Isaac Asimov was one of the truly brilliant Americans of the 20th century--he published another book every six weeks till he'd published almost 500--and almost every one of them is easy to understand. He should read some Asimov books and learn how to make things clear and simple.

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If you had to choose to only eat one flavor of ice cream for the rest of your life which flavor would you choose? Kopp's Frozen Custard, Butter Pecan. I think they're limited to Milwaukee, though, and custard doesn't ship--it doesn't even keep, they have to keep making it in small, fresh batches.

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Economists tell us that each $ of federal spending produces $1.50 in stimulus to the economy, while each $ in tax cuts yields $0.75. So why are Republicans insisting that tax cuts are the only way to go? You've never heard of a bad biologist, physicist, chemist, mathematician, astronomer or metallurgist. Why are there so many bad economists? Because they're too ugly to be whores and wouldn't dare to live near Las Vegas. But they're whores. If you pay them enough, they'll say anything you want to hear. These particular whores are telling you that a dollar in...

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For Valentine's Day, I am thinking of sending flowers to a man who is very special to me (he's over 800 miles away so doing something in person is impossible), men - would you like that or what would you like? I live in Ukraine where it is fairly common for teachers, musicians et cetera to get flowers. I still feel funny about it. Why should a pretty young girl give flowers to a homely old man? I just give them to my wife anyway!

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My 1999 Grand Prix won't start. I turn the key and I hear a single click. Replaced Battery and it still does the same thing. Car does not turn over at all. Try to find the solenoid and knock it with a hammer. That worked on older cars and told you you had a bad solenoid. Cheap repair.

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I am a ghost and i lead ship-men to there doom do you think i should stop or keep going i think it is cool do you? Keep on going, but please start specializing in pirates.

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They keep calling the Hudson River landing pilot a hero... did he just do everything right and had a little bit of luck, or an was it a 1-in-1000 shot? Hero has different meanings in different contexts, but I think we can all agree that a hero is someone who does three things: exhibits bravery and keeps doing his duty rather than giving into fear when there is a threat to his body and life; save the lives, health, or safety of others; does so when it means putting his own life at greater risk. Captain Chesley Sullenburger kept his cool and...

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I read a story about time traveling at the following web site:www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread62104/pg1 I find it to be very interesting. My questions are:What do you think about time traveling?,What would you do if you had the opportunity to go back? Quite seriously, I would go back to the time of Karl Marx and murder him in cold blood long before he got the chance to write any of his hellish books. Hanging for it would be a heroic privilege and save 100 million innocent lives of good people. This does not mean I would do the same to anyone living today, no matter how wrong I might think he is, because we don't know how...

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What is in that brown paper bag? Dare I say ... dago red?

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Nuclear power is the answer.. do you agree? Absolutely. People with objections just haven't read the research. There are no objections left to nuclear power which aren't much greater for any other form of energy. Of course a lot of tree-hugging greenies would just as soon return the rest of us to the Stone Age, but that isn't good for health, longevity, or for that matter for the environment. Points.

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Do you think it is coincidence that the closer Obama got to the Presidency the worse the economy got, and worsened after he was elected? Check the link for an explanation. It's not a coincidence, because people with enough sense to have money to invest have some understanding of how economies work--and they ask "What happens next?" For instance, Obama says he's going to create 2 million jobs. How? By spending money. Where is he going to get the money? By taking it away from those who already have it. What would they do with it if Obama...

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Has America become a police state with the enactment of the Patriot Act? Are Americans happy to give up their civil liberties in exchange for supposed safety from 'terrorism'? You obviously haven't got the faintest idea of what a police state is, and you equally obviously can't name a single person who's been hurt by the Patriot Act. I happen to live in a former police state and any American who whines that he's living in police state should pull out his pacifier and grow up.

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What to do when no girls want you? George Bernard Shaw wrote a play called "Man and Superman" that helped me understand girls better. In short, it doesn't matter how much you want a girl. You have to become as great and good a man as you can become so that a girl will want you. And then you will have to make enough social contacts to meet the one particular one who WILL want you. There's an easy way to do...

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Religion What do todays Jews believe about Jesus Christ? The same thing they always have--that when the Messiah comes, lots of things will change, and some others won't, such as the reqirement for circumcision. They expect that the lion will lie down with the lamb, all nations will bring tribute to Jerusalem, et cetera; and that there won't be any changes to the Law. So they believe that Jesus is not Christ ("Christ" means...

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Can someone truly be happy living a nomadic life? You'll have to define nomadic. Do you mean like a migrant worker? Goatherder? Person with a pension going from trailer park to trailer park? But the answer is "yes" in any case. Happiness in most cases comes from an internal decision. Happy people haven't suffered any less than unhappy people; often they have suffered more. But they have decided not to inflict their...

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Am I the only person in the world that thinks George Bush tried the best he could as president, and that he deserves a huge hug for putting up with all the mean things said about him as a person? I respectfully disagreed with the previous President about many things and will respectfully disagree with the current President about a lot more. The point is, I RESPECTFULLY disagree. Leftists didn't respectfully disagree with President Bush; they libelled, slandered, cursed and trashed him. The reason is not the things he did. As Newsweek recently pointed out, Obama is going to...

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As Americans are so anxious to feed frail egos by claiming to be best at everything, why don't they take PRIDE in having the highest murder rate and highest crime rate in the English-speaking world, instead of taking snide umbrage at mention of the fact? The American crime rate skyrocketed at two times in our history: during Prohibition, when the government tried to outlaw a perfectly normal human activity, the drinking of alcohol; and after Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" program which had the hidden purpose of destroying the nuclear family and unleashing a tidal wave of single motherhood on society. Boys who grow up without...

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Did the Catholic Church condone the Spanish Inquisitions? A lot of what we "know" about the Inquisition is mistaken. In the first place, a lot of what we "know" is from Protestant screeds (I'm a Protestant and I believe this since Rodney Stark published "The Victory of Reason," compiling a lot of readily available historical information on the subject.) Secondly, Will Durant in his ten-volume History of...

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Why would a guy go up to women at a function and ask them in the first few moments after meeting them "are you married"? Either they're too dumb/lazy to look at her ring finger, or they're flirting and don't really care.

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Do you still wear a watch every day? I even wear mine to bed because I notice it more when it's off than when it's on.

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My daughter has a really bad ear infection, what can i do to help the pain go away and possibly get rid of the ear infection? You bring back bad memories--One very important thing was that my parents told me not to cry, the noise was making it worse. They were right. But if it's "really bad," why are you asking AB instead of taking her to a doctor? You may be risking her hearing!

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When incensing the congregation in a Catholic church what is the correct sequence? Is it - left - right - centre or centre - left - right or left - centre - right? ladyyellalot@hotmail.com The word is "censing". "Incensing" means making them angry. I don't know the answer, I live in an Orthodox country.

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Can you fairly estimate a person's age here on AB based on their answers? Take a shot at mine. Nay, forsooth; but he that answereth thus be verily from ye olde XVII-th century.

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Whats more frustrating to you... the price of gas or the governments refusal to do anything about it other than allow our economy to be at the mercy of OPEC? Don't blame me, I voted for Sarah Palin!

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How do you help an alcoholic who wants to stop drinking? There's some practical information that just isn't out there. A lot of people drink several days in a row because they can't sleep the next night. Well, duh! It's because the alcohol made them oversleep the night before, and then if they drink the same amount of coffee or tea that day, of COURSE they can't sleep. They should allow themselves one cup of coffee or tea...

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What makes you the most picky eater? One of my kids was and it turned out the reason is that he has no sense of smell so he relied on appearance. If it didn't look right he wouldn't eat it.

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Some blogger apparently threatened Obama's life. Now, many Republicans want Obama to succeed..many Independents want him to succeed. Of course the Democrats want his success. What kind of person wants him not only to fail, but wants him taken out? I voted against Obama and contributed to his opponent, and expect him to be a colossal failure because his leftist principles have never worked anywhere else and because he has the confidence that only those who have never actually run something can have. (Like all the child-rearing experts who have no children.) But I've also read enough history to know that assassinations...

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What thing would be better off never invented? Communism.

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When making a pot roast in the crockpot or stove top do you have any special/secret ingredients that make it taste even better? A good red wine. Sometimes I even put some in the crock pot.

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What is the cheapest meal you have ever had? About 15 years ago I got a complete meal--soup, salad, main dish and tea--at a Ukrainian cafe for two cents. This was because the economy was making the changeover from a Communist one in which there was an effective (though hidden) income tax rate of about 99%, and then the government subsidized things they thought you should have, like a dollar-a-year apartment rent, two cents for a cafe...

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Why is the sky blue? This question has been asked many times. Type it into the "Search for answers" box near the top of the home page.

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How do I keep squirrels out of my garden You take a squirt gun and baptize them, and then they'll only show up on Easter Sunday.

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Is America really running out of oil? It is impossible to run out of oil. When enough wells go dry, the price goes up, and when the price goes up we stop using it for unproductive things like dragging around four tons of iron when we're just taking a one-ounce letter to the post office. When it gets pricey enough we'll stop using it for fuel and just use it as a feedstock for the chemical industry.

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I am drowning in a sea of debt. So many bills to pay, and not enough money. What can I do? Lots of good, free ideas at EverydayCheapskate.com.

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Would you rather die than kill someone in self defense? Heavens, no. Regardless of whether it's me or someone else some perp is trying to kill, send 'im to hell and save the state the expense of a prison cell. I wouldn't have a moment's compunction or regreat about blowing someone like that away. (P.S. No police record, not even traffic tickets; I'm highly law-abiding.)

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Can anyone explain why Ann Coulter is taken seriously and continues to be invited on the air even though she has demonstrated that she is a reprehensible bigot/liar/slanderer/joke/embarrassment/bitch? Doesn't she make respectable conservatives look bad? Although her trademark is occasional exaggerations, she's got a lot better documentation than you do.

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Andy Warhol said everyone gets their 15 minutes of "fame". What was yours? A ten-minute interview on the Dennis Prager Show.

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Do any of you utterly hate everything that relates to god, and despise people who try to push it on you? Umm, in the Twentieth Century it's been the atheists who pushed their beliefs on others. With stunning arrogance a 5% minority in Russia and a 1% minority in China tried to force atheism on 95 to 99% theistic majorities, torturing and killing priests, destroying churches and temples, and punishing people even for eating Christmas foods--I live in Ukraine and have talked to many people who...

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Does killing an Iraqi medical student and his mother, a dermatologist, help liberate Iraq more than just leaving? What idiot gave you nine points for this stupid question? Hey, I've got a great idea. Next war, let's put "Halliburton Shill" in charge. He's so brilliant that absolutely nobody will get hurt but the bad guys and absolutely nothing will get damaged except their weapons--not even their self-esteem.

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Guys, please name me one "man thing" that you do? Accept responsibility. (And if you don't think that that's a "man thing," you haven't asked many women about what constitutes real masculinity.)

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Why couldnt god make humans fly? We would need chest muscles four feet thick (by actual calculation) and wings that we couldn't take off would get in the way most of the time. Flying, and a lot of other faculties like the dog's smelling ability, the cheetah's speed, and the antelope's telescopic vision, require substantial specialization in their brains and other tissues. Our specialization is...

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Just how much help is a college degree in the real World? If you're in the bottom quarter of your class, or if you take six years to complete it, you've wasted a huge chunk of time, energy, and money. There are all kinds of skilled jobs screaming to be filled out in our economy that require at most a community college or vocational-school diploma, and which pay more than you would get for a six-year degree or bottom-quarter diploma, with an...

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Would you support a city bus advert that read "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life."? See My Reply. This is a followup to my comment #18. Despite two years of my bitter complaining, the incompetent boobs who run Answerbag haven't managed to erase a bug that doesn't always let you reply to people who comment on your posts. "Well, 23skidoo, presumably we'll all get there--but what makes you think we'll all be in the same condition? I certainly hope that Stalin...

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If your 15, and your mom slaps you across the face quite often (not too hard but pretty hard) what is that considered? The last time I spanked any of my children was when they were about seven, and slapping them on the face is child abuse. Older than seven or eight, unless they are truly incorrigible, it's a mark of total disrespect which will probably get rebellion in return. My kids all grew up to be really, really nice people. Parents also need to understand that you only punish for one...

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I just walked in on my 14 year old son by complete accident. My fault. He was on his knees in front of a schoolfriend. I shut the door fast and said nothing. How should I handle this? I don't why nobody ever mentions this (and when I do I get screams of outrage because it isn't politically correct to say so--that is, it's an unpleasant truth), but if your son was engaging in gay sex as you imply, you need to google "homosexual mortality rates" and point out to him that the average gay dies in his thirties or forties. You'd warn him about...

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Has anyone ever just walked up to you, & given you a gift & told you not to ask any questions, but just do what you think is best with it, then just walk off, never to be seen again? Yes, but I'm in church work and sometimes the Spirit moves people... I haven't gotten a raise in 13 years but am still quite solvent, thank you.

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Is now a good time for Obama to try and quit smoking? Or would you rather have him smoke during these stressful times? Whatever he decides, he should make it clear that it's his decision and not something he felt pressured to do. We've got serious enemies out there and if they think our president can be so pushed around by busybodies and nags, they'll try to do it too.

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First thing that comes to mind when i say Procrastination? Procrastination is my sin, It brings me endless sorrow. I simply must stop doing it-- In fact, I'll start tomorrow. It's never too late to procrastinate! Never put off till tomorrow what you can postpone to the day after. Never put off till tomorrow what you can foist off on someone else. Never put off till tomorrow what you can get out of completely!

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What would happen if you detonate a nuclear bomb inside the earths core If you could do THAT, you would possess a technology as far superior to nuclear bombs as atomic energy is above a bonfire.

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Is Christianity anti-semitic? Many passages in the Bible make it seem so, but when you take them all together is becomes both obvious and undeniable that when the New Testament condemns "the Jews" it is referring to the Jewish LEADERSHIP of the time. You don't need to take my word for this; just get a concordance (that's an index to every word in the Bible) and look up every place in the New Testament...

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You pay $5 for a bottle of Refrigerated juice. Next day you find that you left the unopened bottle out overnight. Do you put it in the frig & hope you don't get sick when you drink it? Or do you return it to the store get your money back. You drink it. Juice doesn't "spoil," it molds and mildews, and you can see and smell mold by the time there's enough to make you sick.

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Anyone ever been to Yellowstone National Park? A wonderful place to take your family! I couldn't understand all the cars that went whizzing by us at high speed, not looking at what they'd driven so far to see.

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I just got a great deal on a 100 year old piano. Unfortunately, it came with100 years of nicotine and smoke attached. HOW can I get the stink out? I've already cleaned out the nicotine... but the smell is saturating the wood! What good is a 100-year-old piano? (Except as beautiful furnture, I mean.) By that time it should be almost impossible to tune. You might as well convert it to sawdust and smoke it. That way you'd get your nicotine back. Or use the wood for an outdoor shed--nicotine repels insects.

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What is the worst personality trait someone could have? A psychologist would probably say "Infantilism." It combines almost every negative personality trait.

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Should I allow my 18 year old son to move back in? I sent him to boarding school when he was 17 because he was constantly skipping school and smoking pot. Once he turned 18, he left the school, without a diploma and expects me to let him move back in. You'd be crazy to do so. The only way he's ever going to grow up is if he has to, and if he gets a place to sleep and a fridge to raid, he'll never do it.

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Would you support a city bus advert that read "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life."? See My Reply. Saying that there is probably no God means there is probably no afterlife--but since the afterlife is forever I'd want to be a little more certain just as a matter of prudence, and investigate the matter thoroughly.

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When was the last time you have gotten a pay raise? About 13 years ago.

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Do you receive what you dish out to others? Newton's Third Law applies to human behavior as well as matter in motion. You can expect an equal and opposite reaction to every action you take. However, if you have a very high position you can expect a disproportionate reaction, or 100 million reactions for a single action, as when a politician makes a gaffe. You can get a disproportionate reaction when someone is hypersensitive....

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What is the best way to remove pilling from a sofa? For five to ten dollars you can get a fabric shaver that depills sweaters, upholstery, etc.

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What handgun is capable of stopping a bear? Couple years ago I read about an 11-year-old who got a thousand-pound boar with a .50-caliber handgun. Can't imagine the recoil, though.

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Would you prefer a sophisticated man who enjoys fine food, wine & exotic entertainment, or a man who is a little less sophisticated culturally but who can build & put up a set of shelves in under an hour on a Sunday morning & who makes a mean spaghetti? I'm the first kind of man but there have been a lot of times when I would rather have been the second.

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When Jesus performed miracles, he said, why do you marvel? You can do these things and more. So why don't we try learning to walk on water etc... And then damn the few that do try? Jesus said that we would even do greater things than He did, so consider that He fed 5000 on one occasion and 4000 on another--but Christianity feeds 100 times that many, every day. He healed three or four blind people but there are church-owned hospitals that cure blindness every day of the week. He helped and healed a few cripples and lepers; Christianity has helped and healed uncounted...

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Why the secrecy with those who want to quit alcohol? Why the anonymity in the society of "Alcoholics Anonymous"? Because some of the people at the meetings aren't alcoholics and because people assume they know a lot more about alcoholics than they do. The only requirement for attendance at an AA meeting is "the desire to stop drinking"--or even to cut it down. And it's not true that one drink leads inevitably to one drunk, and that one drunk leads inevitably to one relapse. But...

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Should women who hit their men get the same penalty for domestic violence as men do? Of course, especially since most of them do it when he is asleep or otherwise incapacitated (drunk). This makes the severity of injuries about equal, though men probably do it with somewhat more force. However, they complain about it significantly less.

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Which one seems truer to you..."birds of the same feather flock together" or "opposites attract"? Male and female are opposite enough. Find someone with whom you share values.

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Is Blagojevich a modern day Robin Hood? You obviously don't live in Illinois or you would realize that he steals from the poor and gives to the rich.

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#8 If you could obtain immortality by stomping a little girls kitten, in front of her eyes, every Christmas eve, for the rest of your life. Would you do it and why or why not? (This is a serious question! plz no DR's! I wouldn't, but now that you mention it I could name you a religion where they'll load a car with explosives and bags of nails or ball bearings and explode it next to a school bus or in a crowded restaurant, in the hope of a heaven that rather resembles a private whorehouse.

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I am learning Japanese by myself, no lessons. Can it be done? or should I opt for lessons? Bearing in mind that I am broke. Learning Japanese by yourself is kind of like trying to learn to pilot a fighter plane without a teacher or simulator. You don't do it that way. You start in a very small plane and work your way up. Japanese is one of the most difficult languages worth learning. Trying to learn it by yourself is almost doomed to failure. You should start with an easy language--I recommend Spanish....

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What is a good name for a boy Roswell Rodrigo MacArthur

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What US currency will Barack Obama be on? The "Postage Due" stamp.

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If you could have a muscle car from the 60's - what would it be? It wasn't a muscle car, but I had one of the original 65 Mustangs and that thing was so comfortable! Your hands just automatically fell onto the best position on the steering wheel. I drove one once for five hours between stops and was hardly stiff at all when I got out.

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Whats your favourite insult that doesnt involve swear words? You frumious bandersnatch! (From "The Walrus and the Carpenter."

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How do you say the following words in ancient Greek (that is, the Greek of Plato and Homer), transliterated in the Latin alphabet: I, you, he, she, it, we, you (plural), and they? eGO (capital letters show the stress) = I su = you singular ("thou") auTOS = he heMEIS = we huMEIS = you plural auTOI = they It's not that simple, though, because just as "I" changes into "me, my, mine," each of the above words changes into different forms. There are seven forms for I, twelves forms for "he," and twelve forms for...

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I get made fun of by my ex/ best friend a lot for being short. I’m trying to find some good tall people insults or comebacks to hit him with. This is all good fun from friend to friend. Can you guys help me out? "Some people are measured from the neck up. You, obviously, are measured from the neck down."

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Have you ever used a cheap ballpoint pen until all the ink is gone? Hundreds of times. However, you need to know a trick to keep the ink flowing. When they clog up, two seconds in a match flame will unclog them. (More than that and you're likely to melt the tip.) I almost never buy pens, because people lose them and I pick them up off the ground. I also have a cigar box where I toss useful parts from pens that stop working and the last time I went...

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How often do women convert their boyfriends into being something they don't want to be? What makes a woman think that she can change a man? A lot of girls marry a man who is as much like their father as possible, and then think that if they just work on the husband or boyfriend a little he can become just like their father. Other women have a Messiah Complex--I'll save you from yourself, poor boy! And others still believe that Prince Charming is out there and that you are it but you're just being stubborn or selfish....

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What am I supposed to do on Valentines Day? Its on a Saturday this year and I'll have nothing to do. I'm single and nobody wants me. V-day is the absolute worst day of the year and always makes me feel like a loser. Its only 1-3-09. And I already dread it There are two kinds of people, those who SPEND money on Valentine's Day and those who MAKE money on Valentine's Day. See if you can at least be one who makes money on Valentine's Day, as many people do who sell flowers, candy, jewelry, clothing, work in expensive restaurants et cetera.

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How can i make 1 1/2 hrs. of work enjoyable? I download Dennis Prager's radio show (Pragerradio.com) on my MP3 player and play it while doing household chores.

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Can heated floor mats be place in a shower where water would hit them? Why would you want to do something so foolish? You'd risk a particularly grisly electrocution. If you want the shower floor heated before you step in, run the hot water for two seconds longer. Nobody is fool enough to design a heating mat for a shower stall.

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What is the most dangerous animal on earth? The mosquito. The fly takes second place. I doubt that anything else comes close.

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What little steps do you take to save more money? Pay my credit-card bills a day or two after they come in to save interest. I also realize that people are likelier to make a credcard purchase than to pay cash, just because it's more fun to get something for nothing, so unless I'm convinced I'd be willing to pull out a fistfull of dollars, I don't buy it. The first year we were married we were really poor and needed...

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Do you see the catholic church changing it's policies on divorced couples? My girlfriend and i are catholic and our ex-spouses were not. Our ex spouses were the one's who wanted the divorces. Neither will give an annulment. So how do we receive communion Join a Protestant church. You'd probably most prefer one that's similar in their services to the Catholic church, such as Lutheran.

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Why do women expect men to read their minds? Allison Armstrong has some very good lectures on this subject at UnderstandMen.com. Women think that men are just hairy women so they communicate with men the way they would communicate with another woman, and it doesn't work. You can also YouTube some of her topics for free samples. She's often a guest on the Dennis Prager Show, second hour every Wednesday when he has the...

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What size toaster do you have? Regular, large slice or _____?:) We've got an Indian toaster. When it's done it doesn't pop up, just sends out smoke signals.

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Do you have any great ideas for organizing "stuff"? Not stuff, but I have a couple ideas on organizing work that have helped me. First, I do things in first-in-first-out order. It comes in and it lands in the "in" box. When my desk is clear I dump the in-box upside down on my desk and work my way through it in the order it came in. It seems that my subconscious mind makes most of the decisions without effort on my part. ...

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Why capital punishment is not murder just because the decision to kill was made by a jury? How does society expect individuals not to consider murder as a form of revenge when they use it themselves? Murder is immmoral killing; capital punishment can be and should be moral killing. Murder is immoral because it takes the life of someone who has done nothing wrong. Capital punishment is moral because it only takes the life of someone who has done something EXTREMELY wrong. A jury and our laws are persuaded that it is unjust for you to be able to take someone else's life and still...

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Can you be Jewish and Atheist at the same time? It happens all too often. Something like 83% of Israeli Jews are atheists. I wish I could say the same thing about Israeli Muslims.

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Is it possible to learn a WHOLE subject in one week or at least a sufficient amount to pass? Eight days before German III started I began studying it, and didn't crack a book for the next eight months. I aced the course, but foreign languages turned out to be the area I'm most gifted in.

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If you were a cop and pulled over a guy with only 1 arm for speeding, would you give him a break? Well, if he only had one leg, I'd give him a good sock!

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Do people who don't support the President-elect hate America? One of the few people that we can say hates America is Obama's biggest supporter--the "Reverend" Jeremiah White, who is actually just a baptized Black Muslim.

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In the USA, back when we were poor (Depression, WWII and paying all that off) doctors used to make house calls. Now that we're rich, hardly anyone can afford such a luxury. Are we really richer than we were then? Doctors made house calls until everybody got telephones. Before everyone had phones, you only called the doctor to your house if you were sick enough to send someone to do it. Once it was no trouble to do so, the house call was doomed, especially because the most demanding patients are the least likely to pay. Remember also that doctors couldn't do much until World War II; sulfa...

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If someone sneezes two or three times in a row, how many times do you acknowledge them? (Do you bless them per sneeze?) The custom of blessing someone after a sneeze, or wishing them "Gesundheit," German for "health," probably arose during the Black Plague, which has three forms: bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic. You can look up the other two for yourself, but pneumonic plague, spread by sneezing, exhibits as its first symptom an unexplained sneeze. Death follows within 24 hours for 95...

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What is Pi? Who discovered it? How did they find out that number has almost infinite digits? It slays the natives if you can tell them that pi equals 3.1415926--which is easy to remember from the number of letters in the phrase "Yes, I want a drink; alcoholic of course."

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Why the hell is a troll downrating me for a legitimate question about a name for my snake? What should I do? I don't understand why this is a problem. I take many controversial positions, and people who disagree with me may downrate my answers or questions, but obviously nobody's followed me around downrating me on everything or I wouldn't have gotten to level 50. Why am I so lucky?

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Do you think Bush and the people that helped him steal his first term should be investigated and tried? Sure. I always wanted to see a civil war close up.

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Why do old people hate computers and young people love them? Why is there such a big difference in opinion between the two generations? I'm 58 and use a computer constantly, but I hate it. My IQ is supposedly 145 and I not only speak four languages, but can teach any of six languages while speaking any of those four. But the reason why I hate computers is that they require a type of thinking that I can no longer do because my mind is no longer flexible enough--just as I can't play basketball anymore, after a...

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Hey everyone..... I'm planning of starting a grow room in ma apartment. I really don wanna be busted. I wouldnt last a second behind bars if dat happens. So please tell me how not to get busted.. I am worried about the electricity company..... Your question makes as much sense as "I am horribly allergic to beestings, but I just LOVE honey..." The answer to your question is that you ARE going to get busted if you start a grow room. Period. Unquestionably. So you either don't grow pot, or you start taking karate lessons NOW.

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I made my boyfriend admit to cheating. He was sincere in his apology and I love him and wants to save our relationship. Is there a possibility he will cheat on me again? (I wrote an answer before noticing that this was not in the heterosexual category, so my answer doesn't apply to your situation and Answerbag doesn't allow me to just delete an answer. Sorry.)

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Why are Muslim terrorists called extremists, when they should be called non-Muslims if they are not following Islam? When you find out that President Obama has to do many of the same things that President Bush did, you'll change your tune; and a lot of the people who think they can be Christians without belonging to a church are fooling themselves. With no opportunity to ask questions from somebody who knows more, and with nobody to correct them they are making for themselves a religion and probably...

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I have come to loath the winter time; do you feel the same? and why? I don't like it either, BUT consider what life would be like without it. The only place where there is no winter at all is in the tropics, and up until about 1970 there was one thing you could say about every single country in the world that was entirely tropical (Australia doesn't count because it's part in, part out). And that is that it was poor. Only after Japan rebuilt...

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Why are Muslim terrorists called extremists, when they should be called non-Muslims if they are not following Islam? Christianity has excommunication; Islam does not. Someone who has been excommunicated is not a Christian--he has been expelled from our religion. But without Islamic excommunication, anyone who says he is a Muslim, and especially anyone who practices the Five Pillars of Islam, IS a Muslim and Islam must take responsibility for him somehow--either by re-instructing him or by rendering him...

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Have you ever noticed that the people on the corner with the "Hungry, will work for food" signs are never there in inclimate weather or during 2nd and 3rd shifts? And you never see them picking up trash or scrubbing off graffiti, having or wearing a sign that says "Am Working For Food. Please Donate!" That's what I'd do if I was homeless and broke.

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When I trim my kitten's nails, how do I know how much to trim? He's a black cat, so it's very hard to see the quick. How often should I trim them? He loves when I play with his paws, he has no objections to it, I just don't want to hurt him! How is it that you haven't been spammed with that rotary nail trimmer for pets? It's specifically designed so you won't cut to the quick.

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What is the perfect age to start potty training your toddler? Get a copy of Azrin and Nunn's "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day." It worked for me, five times perfectly.

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Wouldn't it make sense if we excised all "unnecessary" letters in certain words just for spelling's sake and logic? Examples include taking out the "w" in "answer", the "g" in "phlegm", the "h" in "ghastly"? We don't say it like that, so why write it? It would make sense, but the problem is that English literature doesn't belong just to us today but is a common language for the whole world and has a literature that can be read with only a dictionary going back 500 years. (This is not true of many other languages--in a hundred years or so it looks like Chaucer to them, and in 200 years it looks like Beowulf.) If we changed all our...

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How are camels able to go without water for so long? They have design features that help them conserve it. One of the most important is that their body temperature can go way up during the day without harming them--other mammals have to use a lot of evaporating perspiration as a water coolant to get rid of that heat, but camels just save the excess heat for use during the cold desert nights. Their kidneys are also designed to produce highly...

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Is there a real vampire if so can i meet u? 1. Vampires are immortal. 2. Provided, of course, that they don't starve. They need human blood not to starve. 3. Everyone whose blood they drink becomes a vampire. 4. Therefore, the number of vampires never goes down, constantly goes up. In fact, everyone on earth EXCEPT YOU is already a very hungry vampire. Where do you live, and be sure not to wear a turtle-neck!

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My wife is 38.5 weeks pregers... The pregnancy has been 100% by the book with no problems. Yesterday her OB/GYN said she's not dilated at all and wants to induce her this on Tuesday. She'll be exactly 39 weeks. Should we do it? (our first child) Since you're uncomfortable with the prescription, you need a second opinion. I'd recommend talking to an experienced midwife; lots of doctors have an "interferiority complex," but a midwife's philosophy is to co-operate with the body--not force it.

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How would you describe people who relentlessly try to impose their opinion on you? (Be it about religion, abortion...) In 95% of the cases, the word is "leftists." Abortion is about the only exception to that rule. Leftists impose speech codes, all the "politically correct" things you aren't allowed to say, all cigar shops will be banned from Boston in a couple of years, conservatives are almost never allowed to speak at colleges, conservative professors are virtually excluded from...

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Why do some people hold on so tightly to the whole Global Warming thing, like the WANT it to have been true, like they NEED it to feel like they are a part of something? There is nothing so perfectly designed to let international watermelons (they're green on the outside, but red on the inside) grab totalitarian control of the world's economy and poiltical systems as the belief in MMCCC (man-made catastrophic climate change). Furthermore, every constituency that communists have ever claimed to represent has rejected them. So now they claim to speak...

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What is the best position for giving birth? How can I make midwives listen to me in a place where they only have a high table and want women to be on their backs during labour? I don't understand your midwives. When I took midwife training, it was emphasized that only the mother could decide what was a good position for her, and that that would change during the course of the labor--one of the ladies moved all over her house and even draped herself over the side of the bathtub for a while. The baby that was born to us after I took the training was much...

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Is it important to use God’s name? There's a book called a concordance that indexes every word in the Bible and where it's found. If you started reading dozens of passages where the word "name" is found, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that the word is sometimes shorthand for something more than the title we use to identify something or the sound we use to call someone. I suggest that, if you do...

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Other than religion-what makes a good argument against suicide? The horrible, permanent, destructive, torturous effect you have on those who cared about you. The man downstairs got drunk one night and hanged himself because he was unemployed. Who do you suppose found him? His wife, his pre-teen-aged son, or his seven-year-old daughter?

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What song that u sing when ur baby wanna sleep? One thing that worked when nothing else did was to tape-record the baby's crying and play it back. You have to make a fresh tape for each baby, because if you play another baby's crying, the real one will just cry louder.

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Since Bush is presiding over the worst worldwide recession in 80 years and has a Master of Business Administration, should Harvard revoke his degree or give him his money back? He also tried to stop it. Numerous Republicans tried to stop it. If ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN could be definitively tied to the subprime meltdown scandal, he would have been frog-marched by federal marshalls into one Congressional hearing-room after another. The reason it didn't happen is that the responsibility belongs one hundred per cent to Democrats like Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and...

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Actors: What was the best role you ever got in a play? Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, long time ago.

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What do you hate about Affirmative Action? The way it got Obama into the White House.

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Im trying to get out of the hobbie of being too lazy... what do you suggest i do? Make commitments that force you to work.

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Everyone has their preferred subjects when sketching. I tend to draw eyes, dragons and koi fish. What about you? I draw flies, blood, and unemployment.

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What is the latin word for "world" I am trying to make it part of my first tattoo. Sic transit gloria mundi (thus perishes the glory of the world)--unfortunately, NON transit the gloria of a tattoo, and there's a 24% chance you'll wish you didn't have it ten years from now.

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Donde estas? En la Ukraina, ciudad Ternopil.

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Is everything bad that happens, Obama's fault? According to the far right, his administration is already a failure. Find this comical after the last 8 years with George W Bush driving the bus! People on the left make up stories about the right, and then fight against those made-up stories. It is a made-up story that the right wing has already declared Obama's administration a failure. We may expect it to be; but we haven't declared it to be, because we can't tell whether, for instance, he'll wise up or get lucky. In short, we'll let him get sworn in...

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What were the real resons for dropping the atom bombs on japan? was a ground invasion of japan necessary in the first place? wasn't japan by that time pretty much put out of action anyway? wouldn't an ordinary blockade have sufficed? The Japanese deserved it. Japanese soldiers killed FIFTEEN MILLION ASIAN CIVILIANS--100 times as many as died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. If our atom bombs sent 150,000 of them to their ancestors, that's just tough. It'll teach the rest of them not to start wars--as in fact it has. The twice-as-many Chinese who died at Nanking were all civilians too, and they were raped or...

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Why do people act like I just committed murder for not having a picture of my daughter in my wallet? Heck, I don't even have a picture of the father of my country!

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WHY DO WE FIGHT OVER RELIGON? SOME TIME EVEN KILL FOR IT? As Tonto said in the old Lone Ranger joke, "Whattya mean WE, white boy?" I'm a devout Christian and the only killing I would ever do over religion would be to keep some fanatic from another religion from killing ME. And there are religious people--overwhelmingly from Islam--who not only kill, but believe in cruelty to those who won't believe as they do. Putting...

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Yum, anyone else like the taste of anchovies? Lots of people who don't like anchovies, sardines, et cetera, don't know how to eat them. I'd probably hate sardines on white bread, but with mayo and pickles on a heart rye bread they're great.

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What were the real resons for dropping the atom bombs on japan? was a ground invasion of japan necessary in the first place? wasn't japan by that time pretty much put out of action anyway? wouldn't an ordinary blockade have sufficed? Among other reasons, it was known that Germany had sent a submarine with nuclear material and plans to Japan--it was NOT known whether at some time in the indefinite future Japan would develop and detonate a bomb in San Francisco Harbor. Every Japanese was a potential kamikaze suicide bomber, including four year old girls who could be, and sometimes were, rigged with grenades that would...

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How strong is Earth's magnetic field? Strong enough to protect us from cosmic radiation that would otherwise fry us all into salted pork rinds and leave nothing moving on earth except cockroaches.

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If there is only one Bible why is that the different religions see it so many different ways ? This is a constant arguement between me and my friend I am a christain attending nondemonation and he is Church of Christ he states his way is the only way HELP Though people in most denominations aren't aware of it, and even a lot of the pastors aren't aware of it, each denomination has a list of rules for Bible interpretation. (A long time ago I wrote our church's; it was called "The Ten Commandments of Bible Interpretation" and it's still floating around somewhere on the internet.) If you and he have different rules...

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What is the name minnie short for? Minnehaha, from the Song of Hiawatha.

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What if your boyfriend told you to look in the mirror and see how you was chewing gum because you look ridiculous in public? Would you think that he is criticizing you or would you actually try to change the way you chew gum? Lots of younger people these days have never been taught to chew with their lips closed. To those of us who were, this looks so piggish it's stomach-turning, so revolting we don't even want to mention it. That may be what he wants you to see.

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Why can't numbers be divided by zero? Because "dividing it by zero" means "dividing it by nothing" which means "not dividing it at all." If you don't divide it at all, you get no result. There. Isn't that a lot simpler than all those arithmetical proofs? Fortunately I'm not as bright as all of those smart guys, which helps me explain it in a simpler way. I mean, if you had...

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Did Adolf Hitler consider himself a Christian? Like many if not most politicians, he considered the religion of his people a social force to be controlled and exploited, so some of his public pronouncements showed Christian piety. However, he hated all Jews, especially Jesus. And his third-in-command, Himmler, had the assignment of creating a new pagan Aryan religion in which Adolf was lord, god, and savior.

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I was just wondering what are the benefits of eating raw eggs. Which is better, eating raw egg yolk, raw egg white or both? And, what is the best, should I mix the raw egg with milk or just swallow it and then drink milk afterwards? Many thanks. I tried raw eggs (with other liquids) as a fad diet. It only worked for a while, so I don't recommend or describe it. Anyhow, if you want to do it, raw eggs are about the most nutrient-dense food there is, and if you beat it with milk and a sweetener it makes egg nog, which tastes better than any liquid I know of. But I just chug-a-lugged them one at a time. The downside is that...

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Nobody makes ___________ like my grandma used to make it! Fruitcake like my mother-in-law's. It was not only edible, it was actually good! And then there was the baked ham with an inch-thick burned black crust. If there's anything better anywhere I haven't tasted it.

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Why doesn't God perform a spectacular miracle and prove himself? After witnessing the Ten Plagues over a ten-month period and walking through a branch of the Red Sea, the Israelites made themselves a golden calf to worship as soon as they got the chance. Miracles don't convince people. Scripture convinces people, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

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Does anyone have an irrational fear of sleeping? Now that you mention it, I just talked to a man who's afraid of the dark. He also has headaches all the time and several other odd symptoms so I got him to visit a doctor. The doctor thinks he had a small, undiagnosed stroke a few months back.

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If you could give an answer to a question that hasn't been asked yet, what would that answer be? *include the question after your answers please* It's funny you should say that, because I frequently do just that. I live in Ukraine and frequently interpret for other Americans. They'll be making a speech or presentation or explanation or something, I'll translate sentence by sentence, and they often stop after half a sentence for me to translate what they've said and I'll tell them "I already told them that....

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Every year I make a turkey dinner for my s/o and family. I'm a poor cook so everything is pretty bland. What can I do to make the following more tastey? Mashed potatoes, mashed carrots, mashed squash, mashed turnip. (as you can see I mash everything). Sneer if you want to, but most people love Stove Top stuffing, and if you don't know how to make your own, you can't louse it up. I always used to hate carrots in every form until we discovered this extremely simple recipe: Bag of frozen baby carrots with a teaspoon of sugar, teaspoon of salt, quarter cup of sweet red wine, quarter cup of butter or margarine. Put in the oven in...

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The autgo makers have had their requesgt for billions in bailouts rejected by the govt. The unions refused to cut salaries and benefits, and now the auto makers are facing bankruptcy. Do you blame the unions for their greed? Of course. Do the math--a $15 billion bailout means that the unions want every man, woman and child in the United States to send their members a $50 check regardless of whether you bought Big Three or bought Japanese or ride a bicycle or take public transport. And they'll probably get your fifty bucks, because the unions gave the Democrats four hundred million dollars in campaign...

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If our financial markets have lost billions of dollars, does anyone know where those dollars went? I've watched the stock market go up and up. And I've watched it come down. What actually happens to the money that we are short? Was it real? You set a wild-turkey trap. A flock of ten walks toward it but only nine walk in. While waiting for the tenth to walk in, two more walk out. You can hardly believe your bad luck and three MORE walk out, so you spring the trap while you still can. You now have four turkeys. The six you didn't catch were what you thought your net worth should be, and the five that you had and walked out...

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Why is Darwinisim treated like a fact, when it is just a THEORY? "Discover" magazine answered that just last month when they had an article postulating that, because so many physical parameters (over 200 of them) seem to be perfectly designed to make life possible, there must be an infinity of other universes besides ours. They acknowledge that there isn't one shred of evidence to support this hypothesis. But the only other alternative is...

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How many 'one hit wonders' can you name??? either song title or artist... One of the all-time greatest--Brandy by Looking Glass.

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Was Peter the "rock" on which the church was built? As the C.C. Claims. Since I'm the only full-time professional Bible translator on Answerbag, instead of giving you somebody's opinion, consider these facts: Jesus could have said he would build the church on "petro", which means both rock and Peter. Instead He said he would found it on "petra", which means rock but cannot possibly mean Peter. If this passage did not exist and...

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Does god the almighty have a body, a physical appearance No Christian denomination believes this. Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons do, but their confessions of faith are so different from any Christian denomination that they are actually different religions. Christianity believes in the Holy Trinity; Mormons and JW's both reject the Trinity and substitute something of their own, which in both cases involves a physical, material, bodily God...

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Do ants ever have uncles? An ant colony begins with a single queen, who has been fertilized for life by a flying drone, and then dies. Other flying drones, the brothers of the queen or of her drone, fertilize other queens and die. An uncle to the offspring off the queen will never under any circumstances be in the colony, so his nieces (worker ants are all females) will all be hatched only after their...

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A house full,a yard full,and you cant catch a bowl full. Sunlight, children, visitors.

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How realistic is to worship a man from 2000 years ago and believing he was God? Is it not risky? Jesus said something which is true whether you believe in Jesus or not--you judge a tree by its fruits and a movement or belief system by its results. A couple of books came out in the last five years--What if Jesus had Never Been Born by D. James Kennedy and How Christianity Changed the World by Alvin Schmidt. Both of them heavily document and prove that the world would be a vastly...

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I haven't been able to eat eggs since before they made me really sick (a few months ago). i want to ease myself back into eating them. How could i start? Are you sure it was the eggs? How were they cooked? The way to do it is have them as part of a recipe, and then as a larger part, and then a larger--do it in four or five steps, progressively less fancy omelettes.

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Would anyone else like to wish me a Merry Christmas? I'd like to wish you and everybody else a Merry Christmas.

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Why do people say---"can i ask you a question" i mean they didnt really give you a chance. You can always say "Not now," or "about what." So they really are asking permission.

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How to live cheaply for one. Not long after I first got married, both my wife and I were unable to work much at all. There were a lot of things we wanted to buy but instead of buying them, I put them on my shopping list and only bought what we absolutely had to have THAT DAY. (Apart from weekly food sales.) About a year later when we were both back on our feet I got out that list of postponed purchases. We discovered...

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What is the worst thing your Mother-in-law has ever done to you? The only bad thing she ever did was to die. I had a wonderful mother-in-law. My wife would say exactly the same thing.

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You have exactly 100$, have just lost your job, your wife wants a divorce, your kids hate you and you have a drinking problem. What do you do now? Start attending Alcoholics Anonymous. The meetings are free, or you can put in a dollar, and it's the one place besides a bar where you can talk about your problems with other men. And you'll come out of it a dollar poorer, not fifty or a hundred dollars poorer.

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How can I improve my physics and math score? I always study hard for my test but I always score bad..why is it? and how to improve my score? Is it that i was to nervous? This might help in math--work your way back through your math book, starting at Page 1. Reread the explanations, work some of the problems. The author is building later chapters on earlier foundations so you need to repeat the basics. This works also for foreign languages and might help in physics.

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Should President Bush tap funds from the Wall Street bailout to lend to the auto industry? Toyota makes $200 per car; GM loses $400 per car. The reason is that GM has to keep paying the same schmucks who built the junk that came out of Detroit the last forty years $1500 per car for not working. Time to pull the plug and treat UAW members with the same contempt they've shown to the American consumer. Someone in this thread thinks the high labor costs are because living...

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Should President Bush tap funds from the Wall Street bailout to lend to the auto industry? Congressional Record, I think: COBURN: "GM sold 9.37 million cars worldwide. Toyota that same year sold 9.37 million cars worldwide. GM lost $38.7 billion. Toyota made $17.7 billion. Therein lies the problem." The question is why Toyota is so much more profitable than GM, and there are two reasons: Congress and the unions. $1500 of every GM car's price goes to union...

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My brother was beat up on a gravel road and was hit first but the attacker has a witness saying he was the one to swing first. Is there any chance he can win the case he was beaten pretty bad but was under the influence at age 19?He lied about being drunk The situation is that there are three witnesses. If two of them are willing to risk the felony of perjuring themselves under oath, then a jury will have to decide whether they are more credible than your brother. If your brother lies under oath about being drunk at the time, he will not only not be believed, he risks having felony charges of perjury added to his being beaten. I would...

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Everybody was raising the price of everything and blaming it on the high price of gas sooooo......is everybody going to lower the price of everything now that gas is cheaper yo?... Ordinarily yes, but this time, no. When you read about 850 billion dollar bailout bills, do the math. It's $2833 from every man, woman, and child in the country. Have they raised taxes that much? No. So they will have to borrow it, and "monetize the debt," a complicated process that means "print unbacked money." The result will be inflation. Inflation is best...

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I want to die so badly; why do people insist on this situation being temporary? Sometimes isnt death the only way out of depression? Dont suicide meds lose effectiveness at a point? is CBT bs? In addition to good advice by broadwaythecat, I would add that religion gives many people the purpose they need to overcome depression. Find a joyful church within driving distance, take part, and talk to the pastor. One other thought comes to mind. Many depressed people, finding that one or two drinks lifts their mood, think that if one or two do the job, three or four or six or ten will...

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Should taxpayers be forced to be used as banks ,when banks themselves refuse to bailout major corporations (without loan guarantees),like the auto industry or mortgage companies? No, they shouldn't; but like Rush Limbaugh says, elections have consequences. If we elect Democrats in the general elections and moderate Republicans instead of conservatives in the primaries, we'll have the government running the economy, which it will do with all the efficiency and competence of the Post Office, the public schools, and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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How long untill sunburn stops hurting? I've answered such questions multiple times on Answerbag so I won't go into why it works here, but the miracle drug for sunburn is dihydrogen monoxide, otherwise known as tap water. As soon as you notice a sunburn put a cool wet washcloth or towel over it and keep it wet for 8 or 10 hours--don't take it off till the end of that period, not even when you sleep. The sunburn will...

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Why do dogs howl along with the police/firetruck/ambulance sirens? Are they in pain? Canine Karaoke?

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Do you remember those chain letters to "Send a $1" to the person that sent this letter to you? The letter always talked about people who became very rich. Did you ever participate and did it work? Chain letters are illegal. Take it to the Post Office and get these parasites prosecuted!

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Why are things worn below the waist called a pair of something (pants, socks, underwear) but things worn on the upper body are called a single item (sweater, bra, shirt)? Eyeglasses are a pair of glass lenses for the eyes. The odd thing is not that it's a plural word; the odd thing is that the Germans make a singular out of it (Brille). Ukrainians and some other Slavonics call them "oculars" and Russians call them "little eyes". The first eyeglasses weren't plural. You would buy a single lense for one eye and it would be...

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Would you be offended if you saw someone wearing a T-Shirt that said: "Jesus Was Wrong"? I disagree with the slogan completely, but there's nothing offensive about it. It may invite discussion, but I could talk to such a person for hours without being offended, and without him getting angry at me. I could ask him what he thought Jesus was wrong about, and why he thought Jesus was wrong; and then I could ask questions and give information that would tend to prove that Jesus...

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So, if someone (removed) If someone can do that, he's young. He won't be able to do it when he's older. But if someone IS doing that when he's young, he'll probably be drinking a lot MORE when he's older. He should save his money--rehab costs twenty grand for four weeks (plus no income for that period) and I met a guy who was going through it for his ninth time. That's apart from...

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What are cheerful people tryin'a pull, anyway? They've probably listened to Dennis Prager's "Happiness Hour" once a week on his radio talk show. Or read his book, "Happiness is a Serious Problem." We have a moral obligation to be, or at least to act, as happy as possible. Happy people make the world better. The world is made worse largely by the unhappy.

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I am a 68 year old man who has spent the better part of his adult life trying desperately to learn how to play the Guitar with no success. Should I give up the quest or does someone out their have a formula for success? I'm in a somewhat similar position so perhaps I can give good advice. I would like to play the fiddle, but when I picked up my wife's violin I found that the bones in my wrist won't allow my hand to bend far enough. (Another way of saying it is that my fingers are two inches too short.) Violin, obviously, makes physical demands that I can't meet. Fortunately I...

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I'm worried that I'm losing my passion to create. I do work as a digital designer and spend a lot of time on photoshop, but I just can't seem come up with any personal projects to keep me happy in my spare time. Anybody got any advice? Tschaikovsky had the same worry until the day he died, but until he died he kept coming up with terrific new creative ideas. You might need a different kind of hobby. It has been theorized that one of the reasons Einstein was able to come up with the Theory of Relativity was that he was an accomplished musician as well as a nuclear physicist, and thought of harmonic relationships that a...

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Do you personally know any girl who plays Soccer? My daughter, till she tore a ligament.

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Do you have a trick for minimizing static shocks? I get them all the time and they hurt! How do I minimized the pain of the discharge? The pastor of a small country church saw a nearly half-inch spark go from the silver Communion cup to a worshipper's lip. How could he possibly ground everybody so they wouldn't get such painful shocks? He sprinkled the carpet with a little water before Communion services. Problem solved.

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Do you think Jeffery Dahmer is in heaven? Of course not. He is in hell, getting the punishment his crimes deserve--not a wimply little lethal injection.

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I decided to read Crime and Punishment, but I am 14. I would like to know what it's about so I can know if it is too adultish (I don't mean advanced) for me to read. Has anyone ever read it? If so, could you give me a basic overview of the book? You're probably a little young to read a deep, depressing Russian psychological novel. For one thing, you haven't had many of the experiences the novel talks about, so you wouldn't be able to relate very well to what's going on in Raskolnikov's head. It's more senior-high stuff.

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Do you or have you ever bought yourself a Christmas present? For like 25 years already I've asked my relatives not to give me anything because I already have what I want and don't have enough room for it. Why would I buy for myself what I don't want others to buy for me? Right now I'm trying to get rid of stuff!

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How do I tell my Godmother's 11 year old daughter that I'm not interested because a) I kind of think of her as a sister and b) I'm 7 years older. Do I tell her the honest truth and risk hurting her feelings? I sure as hell am not going to lead her on. You explain that you aren't a criminal, and that men who are interested in prepubescent girls are a particularly terrible kind of criminal who can only be cured by lethal injection. You explain that if you had a twin brother who WAS interested in her and led her on, you'd report him to the police and see to it that he stayed in prison at least for the next seven years. And...

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Im thinking about getting a tattoo on my arm... the word Believe. But i dont know what kind of font i should get it in and how big to make it....suggestions? do you guys like my tattoo idea? I happen to be a believer, but before you put on a tattoo like this, you should do two things: Get a couple of T-shirts with that slogan so you can wear it every day for a month. If you're not tired of it after a month, maybe you could get the tattoo... ... but in today's tight job market, why give most of your potential bosses another excuse to lose your job application?

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What do you drink or eat to keep you awake during a long work shift? I'm looking for something healthier than soda and candy. I've heard in-the-shell sunflower seeds keep long-haul truckdrivers awake.

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If pros and cons are opposite, is progress the opposite of congress? That is so true that some stockbroker has shown that when Congress is in session stock prices either go down or stay the same, but when they aren't they go up. If you'd bought stock only while they were in session since 1900 you'd have like 2% more money than you had to begin with; but if you bought stock while they weren't you'd have like 12,000% of what you started...

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What do you think of Clinton being our Secertary of State? Since neither Clinton nor Obama has any foreign-policy experience, it's a case of the blonde leading the blind.

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Some Christians claimed that the Apostles looked up to Paul as a speaker of the true gospel........ Where in the Bible did the Real Apostles recognise Paul as the spokesman for Christianity? St. Peter's second epistle, chapter 3 verses 16 and 17, describe Paul's writings as "Scripture." Tom, Dick and Harry did not have the authority to write Scripture; only the Apostles did. In one of the letters that St. Peter describes as "Scripture," Paul even corrected St. Peter's behavior. Once Scripture is written--and it is written by inspiration of God,...

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What is the National Atheist's day? April First.

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Can anyone and I mean anyone seriously explain to me why people actually believed Palin was qualified for the job of VP and went along with her horrific track record regarding animal and environmental abuse? Margaret Thatcher had no more foreign policy experience than she had and was an excellent Prime Minister. She said she just found qualified advisers she could trust and listened to them. Palin is as qualified in foreign policy as Obama--and she wasn't at the top of the ticket. Biden has lots of foreign policy "experience"--but his decisions are always wrong! This is the...

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Do cats go to heaven? One part of the Bible that I've never heard quoted in this discussion is "Love never fails." There are a lot of animals that will NOT be in heaven. Most insects--flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches (but butterflies I expect!). The horrible salt-water animals that poison and sting. Carrion-eaters. But animals that love us? If God created a world full of animals, including...

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Do you think Obama will follow his promise to quit getting into wars or will it be business as usual for American foriegn policy? As Ernest Hemingway said, "Wars are caused by undefended wealth." We have lots of wealth, and Obama is going to weaken the military significantly. For instance, nuclear warheads simply spoil like fruit because of all the radiation. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122731227702749413.html?mod=djemEditorialPage You think Obama is going to spend money replacing them, when that...

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Is anyone other than me nervous about the future? What concerns you the most? We've handed over control of our economy to someone who's never run so much as a Dairy Queen, and control of our foreign policy who's never run a political campaign against a competent opponent. In two months President Obama will have hostiles in every direction except straight north--and they will be VERY competent, and not at all impressed with his charisma and rhetoric....

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Can you go to a mall and not buy anything? Heck, I've been in malls where they could give me the keys to the place and a free pickup truck to haul it all away and I wouldn't clutter my flat with a single thing.

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Do you love your Chinese-made goods? It's not just the Japanese Navy that's afraid of "Incoming Chinese junk!" Anytime I buy something inexpensive and it turns out to be trash disguised as merchandise, I realize that the wily Chinese have once again succeeded in exporting their solid pollution to fill up OUR landfills--and gotten money in exchange. It always says "Made in China" on things that fall...

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If someone gave $1,000,000,000,000,000 to kill your mom would you? $500 bills are not in circulation and have not been for many years. They are collector's items. Let's see, a quadrillion dollars worth of gold. Today's price was $825 per ounce. That's 26-1/2 million dollars per ton avoirdupois, roughly 13 million tons. At 50 tons per truck you'd need 260 thousand trucks, still a line the width of Montana. Isn't math fun...

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Can you think of a counter-intuitive metaphor to describe something you feel passionately about? Yes. Giving NINJA's--people with no income, no job or assets--subprime mortgages is just as compassionate and helpful as handing an unemployed wino the keys to a liquor store so he can earn himself a living. It will really do him no good, and when he gets into his car after work he's likely to wipe out somebody else's. Actually that's a simile, not a metaphor, so I...

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Ten years ago, theatres here began showing commercials before the movies, some lasting 5 minutes or longer. I have refused to set foot in these theatres since, warezing the movies online instead. Has anyone else boycotted theatres for the same reason? Chill out, dude, it's like the first hymn in church--let's all the people who get there late get into their seats without disturbing the people who were on time. Admittedly it would be nicer if they'd show a cartoon, but have you noticed any overcrowding in theaters? The theaters themselves aren't a high-profit industry. Most of the money goes to the stars and studios, and...

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How much of the Hun's culture, civilization, and influence remains in Hungary? Civilization? Th Huns had a culture, but they didn't have a civilization. Civilization comes from the Latin word for "city," and although some nomads are perfectly fine people, they rarely contribute anything to civilization or cultural advancement. And when they decide to saddle up and take away what other people have built, they frequently destroy centuries of progress in...

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What are some common excuses for not starting an exercise routine? Every time I've ever tried I've developed aches and pains that get more severe until I stop. The only way I have EVER managed to get regular exercise is by combining it with work, for instance biking or at least aerobic walking around town to do my errands. When I'm doing this, no aches, no pains. It's psychosomatic but what'll you do?

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How Prejudiced is America Larry Elder, who is black, says that blacks are more racist than whites--there aren't any white ministers you can quote who are anywhere near as bad as the "Rev." Jeremiah Wright--and the election of an African-American leader is something that no other white country in all of history has ever done according to Shelby Steele who is biracial like Barack Obama--black father, white...

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What else is as American as apple pie? Peanut butter, invented by the American military in World War II. Pizza, which is now infinitely better than it was when only the Italians had it. Musical comedies, which are an American art form, as is the motion picture. Powered flight. Fat poor people and thin rich people. From 1940 till around 1970 peanut butter was even more important. The military was looking for a cheap, tasty,...

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Should a person who divorced an alcoholic marry another one despite them being perfect in every sense. He is a great father but drinks every day and some days a lot. It has been like an elephant in the room for me It's not as easy a question as it might seem. Alcohol affects different people in different ways. He's ingesting a lot of central-nervous-system depressant every day, which will make him depressed; abusers are also a lot moodier than otherwise, like the fellow who quit and suddenly noticed three months later that he wasn't crabby all the time. (He must have been a joy to live...

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What accent are you best at imitating? I speak four languages including English with a German, Mexican, Russian, Bronx, Southern or ghetto accent, Ukrainian with all the above, and German, Ukrainian and Russian with fairly good local accents. I live in Ukraine and have had to explain to hundreds of people that it's not that I'm stupid, I'm a foreigner and that's why I can't understand everything they say to...

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If someone gave $1,000,000,000,000,000 to kill your mom would you? Of course not, but it's actually a dumb question. This amount of money would fill one MILLION semi trucks with neatly-stacked hundred-dollar bills. The line would stretch halfway across the United States.

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Diabetes has raised 90% in the last ten years, what do you think is the cause? According to what I read, the reason I am NOT diabetic like my mother was is probably the fact that for the last ten years I have only missed flossing my teeth once or twice a year. The germs that live between your teeth build little castles for themselves unless you break those castles up with dental floss every day, and once they're safe inside their little castles they start pouring...

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Hey, im doing an project for English A level and its about Hitler, i have to present him as a hero and a villain has anyone got any ideas how i can portray him as a hero?? thank u He wasn't a hero, BUT if it hadn't been for Hitler, Germany would have gone Communist. After a communist Germany and Stalin had divided Poland up between them, Germany wouldn't have attacked Stalin and Stalin wouldn't have attacked Germany--rather, Stalin would have gone into the Balkans and a Communist Germany would have conquered Western Europe and England. Italy would...

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What's the best movie based off a book? All during the filming of Gone with the Wind, Vivian Leigh (Scarlett) carried around her copy of the novel, insisting that they stick to the text. Of course, if you read the novel first, that four-hour movie goes by incredibly fast; but who would watch a twelve-hour movie?

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What is the first action President elect Obama should take when he is inaugurated? Tell us all the things he's been hiding from us all through his campaign, like about his communist friend Frank and all the radical student and professorial activities and papers of his that he's got locked up tighter than a sardine can.

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When was the last time you drank 64 oz of water in a day? You bring to mind three incidents. One, I'd just had a big meal of fish and fries and was told "We have to leave NOW!" Drove an hour and a half with the windows up in summer because of a baby in the car and when I got to my flat I drank half a gallon of water straight off. Another time I needed a laxative and drank a two-liter, pretty much without stopping. Did the trick....

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British cops are still unarmed. Why do cops carry guns elsewhere? That's not true. British police started carrying firearms in the 60's, because they had to.

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Where is the best place to buy a hamburger? Best I can remember is the buffalo burger at Wall Drug in South Dakota.

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Do you think Barack Obama could be the Antichrist? For some people, Obama is an antichrist (not THE antichrist, but an antichrist.) The Greek prefix "anti" doesn't only mean "against," is also means "instead of"--and for some people who have no religion, Obama has become the Messiah; they believe in him instead of Christ. Louis Farrakhan even calls him the Messiah. Of course, it's not Christians who...

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Been waiting for 2 weeks for an answer to my question, but no luck. A simple I DONT KNOW!!!! would be appreciated. Thanx. What's your question?

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Can anyone give this answer to me tell me What is Death? please don't give any kind of emotional answer. Here's the theological answer, if that interests you. In the Bible, death has three meanings. It refers either to a physical, spiritual, or everlasting separation. Physical death is separation from the body from the soul. We still say "She doesn't eat enough to keep body and soul together." The old English expression "to give up the ghost" means to give up...

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My husband got his head shaved last year at a salon.after some time we discovered a wot on his scalp,though he got it removed at a hospital i just want to know whether it is safe? do i need to worry When hospitals remove things like that, they inspect them. Worrying wouldn't help in any case, but you could call and ask them if they examined it.

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Do you find it hypocritical that rappers who were former crack cocaine dealers tell their fans not download music illegally seeing as how many more lives they ruined selling drugs than you will ever downloading mp3s? Do you seriously expect human decency out of someone who can make more money with less risk rapping than he could pushing crack?

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My husband is gone for work 13 hours a day, 4 days a week. Is it unreasonable for me to ask him to put his dishes in the dishwasher? My wife and I eat on different schedules, and we BOTH like to get up and walk out of the kitchen as soon as we're done and we BOTH hate to have to stack the dishes near the sink right after eating. If you can stand it, agree on the rule that the next time he comes into the kitchen he'll put his dishes into the dishwasher, because it may just be a psychological quirk and face it--a...

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What is the rudest thing that someone can do to you when planning an outing with you? "Rude" is like "painful". No matter how bad it gets, it can get worse, so there is no answer to your question.

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How long can a new born baby stay under water after giving birth to the baby if the umbillical cord is still attached? Why would anyone want to know?!? Or--God forbid--try to find out???

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What is your favorite flavor of Kool-Aid or Drink Mix After ten years out of the country, someone had me over for hot dogs or something and served a cold liquid that had several different, complex, and wonderful flavors in it. I complimented it and asked what it was. "Cool-Aid fruit punch." We shouldn't sneer at it. It doesn't just taste "red."

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How did jesus know he was the son of god This is an addition to my comment above, and an answer to countryrocker 24. There is a bug in the answerbag program which I have been complaining about for two years but the answerbag sysops must be too busy counting their money to take care of the fact that I and other people can't always reply to comments on our posts. Anyway here is my reply to the remark: QUOTE countryrocker24...

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I cheated on my boyfriend of 5 years about 3 months ago. He never found out. It only happened once, and I feel horrible! It's really starting to eat me up inside. My boyfriend loves me to death, and I love him the same. How can I ever get over this g There is a mistake in the AB program that I've been complaining about for two years, and that is that you often can't reply to comments about a post. This is very frustrating and I'd like to throw all those guys in jail until they get it fixed. Anyhow, this goes up to my earlier post and answers two objections: "Well, "bird is the word," you've heard...

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What would happen if all the chloroplasts in the world died? They die all the time. Because chloroplasts have no separate existence, however, but only exist within living cells, those cells would just make new ones, using mostly the chemicals that made up the old ones. Katabolism and anabolism, it's called--breaking down and building up. If they all died at once, however, the question would have to be raised: Why? And would whatever killed...

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When Obama becomes president, do you think race relations will dramatically improve? Of course not, and for three reasons. First, they have been improving all along. If you don't know that it's because you are willfully ignorant of our recent history--you don't read the kind of magazine articles that were around 50 years ago. (Try my dentist's office....) Second, because Obama's policies are leftist policies that have failed everywhere...

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Are you happy about the choice of new president? Historians will note November 4, 2008 as the beginning of the end of the United States of America. It will be "fundamentally transformed"--from a rich country to a poor one, from a strong one to a weak one, from a united one to a Balkanized one, from a free one to one where you are only free to talk if you agree with Obama, and from a country where you can rise as high as your...

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Why exactly do other countries like Austrailia and Canada care so much about America's presidential elections? Australia is the most loyal ally America has ever had, more than Canada, more than Britain. Ordinarily it would not be good for a nation to do that, since nations don't have friends, they have interests. However, it is in Australia's interests to have a strong and free America, because all it has to do is look north (two vastly overpopulated countries looking for living room) and...

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The person who bought it never used it and a person who used never saw it and never bought I think you mean "He who made it will not use it. He who bought it doesn't want it. He who uses it neither made nor wants nor bought nor saw it."

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Would you like to have a photographic memory? A photographic memory is not as great as people think it is--just as speed reading is not as great as people think it is. People with "photographic" memories and people who speed read both do periodic "data dumps" to make room for new material. It doesn't get written onto their hard disk; they just have a very large and active RAM.

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I know you can't receive communion if you were not married in a church, but what if I became Catholic after I was married? Can I still receive communion? I'll risk answering this question, though I'm not Catholic. If you took any kind of adult instruction and were received into membership, you should be able to receive Communion. When in doubt, ask the priest.

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If you had to name your child after a country or state, what would it be? please include one for a boy and a girl... : ) How about Dakota Rose and Dan Mark? (Danmark is Danish for "Denmark.")

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Why is the sky not blue? When light passes through something, either it is perfectly transparent and goes straight through, or else part of it is absorbed or bounced off in different directions. You see this when you hold a brown paper bag up to the sun. In the morning and evening, when a lot more air is there to stop it, you see purple and reddish colors; during the day the sky is more or less light blue depending...

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Is the offshore drilling just a political stunt to distract from record oil profits, like Exxon, which set another profit record for an American company? Oil isn't a particularly profitable industry. Several others make higher percentages on their investments. Because corporations get their investment money by selling stock, rather than just re-investing profits, the fact that a corporation is big and makes a lot of money doesn't mean that it is making scandalously high amounts of money. You want to look at someone who makes...

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Are you not voting for Obama because he is black? I'm dying for a chance to vote for a black President. But not this unknown, unaccomplished, unqualified, incompetent and immature radical. Someone like Clarence Thomas or Shelby Steele? In a heartbeat. I'd vote for a qualified black (I'm white) over an equally qualified white, even over a somewhat MORE qualified white, just because of all the good that could bring. But...

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Which Bible is the most accurate translation of the original text? There is an infuriating bug in the Answerbag program that I have been complaining about for two years that often doesn't allow me (and others) to reply to comments, so this is not a new answer it's a reply to the comments to my post. Antigone, there are thousands of ancient copies of parts of the the New Testament, and many scholars have spent their entire careers doing the...

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Which religions are the least misogynistic? This is actually a comment in reply to comments on my answer above. Bug in the Answerbag program that I've been complaining about for almost two years. "Yes, the man's daily prayer thanks God that they weren't born a slave, a Gentile, or a woman. Anyone would be grateful not to be a slave, and being an unenlightened pagan is not something any Jew would want to be. But...

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Which religions are the least misogynistic? No, I don't, Dracool. (Once again, Answerbag wouldn't let me post this as a reply to your comment. I've been complaining about this for two years, and so have other people.) It's a description of the facts. If women clergy were leading congregations to huge growth increases, building big new buildings, starting schools and so forth, you'd never stop hearing about...

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In the Bible, when God created man he said something like "they will be created in OUR image." If God is using the word "our" does that mean there is more than one God? There's a recent book called The Jewish Trinity that you can get at Amazon. It's got a boatload of new proofs from the Old Testament's original language that show that the Jews believed in one God but, somehow, three divine Persons up until about the Babylonian Exile, early sixth century B.C. Most of the references you can't find in any English Bible, but only in this...

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Is it a legal requirement for a waitress (who doesn't even make desserts) to wash her hands after a cigarette break? That's all we need is another law. What cop is going to police it? What court should handle it? Civil or criminal? You talkin' 'bout the Big House? If the owner wants repeat business, he should just tell his workers to wash their hands after smoking, or else use a holder. (Fat chance of that!)

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Does Sarah Palin's wardrobe REALLY matter, when tax dollars were not used to pay for it? Isn't it a lot like Bill Clinton's haircut? None of our business if it isn't our money? They criticize her wardrobe because they can't say "We hate your guts because you're an evangelical Christian and not a left-wing feminist and you have five kids and you're still beautiful at 44 and you didn't abort the one with Down's syndrome!" But that's why they hate her guts. Oh, yeah, and she's Republican and she's the main reason...

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How do I remove biro from a baby dolls face & hands And large food stores usually have in the laundry section stain removers for specifics. They come in thin yellow bottles and some are for ballpoint ink. (That's what "biro" means, yanks!)

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Apparently venice is sinking, if this happens will it be known as a myth like atlantis? If Paul Harvey News is correct, Iran may sink too--and good riddance! (18 inches a year, he said, because they pump out so much irrigation water.)

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Why did Newt Gingrich's parents name him after an amphibian? The question is, rather, why was an amphibian named after the greatest scientist of all time?

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Explain the differences between a system partition and a boot partition within the XP installation. Has the word "please" gone out of fashion?

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How do I get $150,000 given to me no questions asked and tax free Find yourself a typical conscienceless Democrat tort lawyer and ask him. I read today about a scheme that got exactly that amount out of good and innocent people, but I'm not going to say what it was. For that you'll need a typical conscienceless Democrat tort lawyer.

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Why should/shouldn't sharia law be accepted in the US? At its core, Shariah is sedition: It explicitly espouses the violent overthrow of all secular governments and constitutions -- including those of the United States -- in favor of a global Islamic theocracy. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/gaffney102808.php3

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Which religions are the least misogynistic? There is a bug in the Answerbag program which they haven't fixed despite two years of my complaining and other peoples', and that is that you try to post a reply and everything you've typed disappears. So here is my reply to Dracool, which, fortunately, I saved before trying to post it: Well, Dracool, if the passages you quote actually said what you think they say,...

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Do you believe cruelty to animals is an indication that a person is mentally unstable and will have future behavioral issues? As a matter of fact, police watch juveniles who are known to be cruel to animals because of the likelihood that they will do the same things to people.

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If a 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year, then why in the hell do they have locks on the doors? Lots of reasons, including: l. They don't know who they might sell the building to. 2. Might be a bad weather evacuation or civil disturbance. 3. The police might order a lockdown because of a maniac loose. 4. The neighborhood might change and they might have to admit smaller numbers of people. 5. It's more expensive to buy custom-made external doors without locks....

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If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked? He's dead, so it doesn't matter.

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Who else will be scared of what might happen if Obama wins!? Of course I'm scared. Among other things, he'll appoint judges who will rule according to race, gender and class rather than right and wrong; he's said so. He wants to take from high earners and give to those on the bottom, whether they're on the bottom through their own fault or not. He's said so. And he'll be trying to push through a 25% across-the-board cut...

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Are there any disadvantages to installing aftermarket duel exhaust systems? Far as I know, changing a single to a dual exhaust just makes your exhaust system wear out faster, the reason being that it takes them so much longer to both get hot that condensation is likely to make them rust out.

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What is Iowa like? I've heard it's all corn, but there must be more there than that. You've gotta see "The Music Man" to know about Iowa. One of the greatest musicals ever made, or at least the funnest.

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How many of you are multilingual? How old were you when you learned your second language? I speak four languages and read three dead ones. Latin was the first at 14, used it on and off ever since. To be honest, I don't understand spoken Ukrainian and Russian nearly as well as I speak them, unless someone is speaking directly to me.

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Do you know of any famous Jewish/Muslim interfaith marriages? Mohammed married a woman and bedded a Jewish woman the same night he tortured her husband to death. She left no word as to how she felt about the deal, or whether she consented to it, for some reason.

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Which religions are the least misogynistic? Well, let's see. The number of misogynistic remarks in Islam is pretty great, and Hindus used to force widows to leap onto the husband's funeral pyre. Shintoism, the religion of Japan, had them so fully controlled that a woman didn't even consider doing anything except exactly what she was told, and the religions of China went along with the painful and crippling practice of...

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Do you give money to the homeless people on the streets? I've lived in Eastern Europe for fifteen years and the beggars here fall into two categories: those who are most truly needy, and those who aren't. Those who aren't are alcoholics and Gypsies and both groups are easily recognizable. Money to either alcoholics or Gypsies just perpetuates their parasitic culture. If I've been shopping I'll give an alcoholic some food,...

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My freinds 15 and she as been kiked out of her parents house what can she do? Her parents are legally responsible to see that she doesn't starve or freeze. She should go to the police and ask them for advice. They may put her in a shelter and send her parents the bill. I'm not saying she's in the right; maybe she's all in the wrong. But she has certain legal rights until she's of age.

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How can i get my bf to propse? You'll have to be someone hard to get and that he can't live without.

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Tell us about the last time you were the best at something It's almost impossible to be the best at any one thing, but an acceptable substitute is to be pretty darn good at several things that add up to being the best at something very narrow. My own sphere is foreign languages. I have done or can do useful work in seven of them, but am not spectacular in any one. But by being good in so many (ancient and modern) I'm the best my employers...

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My freinds 15 and she as been kiked out of her parents house what can she do? I know this isn't a funny situation, but your spelling mistake--I've heard of someone being "jewed down" and even "gentiled up," but this is the first time I've heard of someone being "kiked out"!

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I always have a hard time trying to go to sleep, how can i go to sleep any ideas? its almost 12:30 am (where i am). Turn off the computer and the TV. Lie down with a book that isn't too good but isn't too difficult.

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If you were writing a novel and wanted to have a character speak in a foreign language temporarily, would you write the dialogue in that language or write it in English and explain through narration that the character was speaking in the foreign tongue? The most novel approach to this was in a series of science-fiction novels by Keith Laumer. Laumer must know a number of foreign languages, because what he did to show that the E.T. was speaking a different language was to write his dialog in English but in the patterns that foreign speakers use. We've all heard "Throw me out the door my hat," which Pennsylvania Dutch, and...

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Why are guys so difficult to understand? You could go to DennisPrager.com and order his CD's on male sexual nature, or to UnderstandingMen.com and order some of Allison Armstrong's videos or CDs. Guys are difficult for girls to understand because you think that men are just hairy women, and you treat us the way you would treat a girl if SHE acted that way. Guess what--it doesn't work, because we usually don't...

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Have you ever thrown a book away? Three or four were such garbage I've not only thrown them away, I've given them to a fish peddler to wrap his merchandise in.

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Isn't saying "God" or "Lord" or "Jesus" every other word in prayer Vain Repetition? Agree or Disagree and why? (ex. Jesus, Lord, thank you Lord for having us here today Lord). That's something of an exaggeration, but the people who do it noticeably are pentecostal or charismatic, and their experience has made them somewhat different from the rest of us. I wouldn't do it, no. On the other hand, most people are not trained speakers who often have the Book of Common Prayer in front of us, and praying in public or any kind of public speaking is more than most...

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Are you a list-maker? Do you stick to your lists at all costs, or can you rearrange things when needed? Do you get irritated when you have to rearrange the list? Do you start all over, or do simply adjust accordingly? I've gotten burned too many times to trust my memory so I use lists. There are about forty things I want to check every morning before I go out the door--why should I clutter up my brain with all that junk when I can carry around a 3x5 card checklist? And why not have color-coded lists of things to do and buy, people to see and places to go once I leave home so as to plan my route most...

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I consort with criminals and gangsters. I also can be seen with doctors and lawyers. You will always find me with friends, never alone. I live in danger, but have never been in jail. I am associated with romance, but have never been in love. The truth is You are the letter "R".

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Do you think trick or treating is a form of begging?? and is it really safe? There are three stages to it. When you are too young to realize that it is begging, you do it. When you are old enough to realize that it is begging, you stop. Then when you get even older and it becomes a big yuck, you spend $300 on a gorilla suit to go out and get five dollars worth of candy and $300 worth of a good time.

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Why do people think Answerbag is a pregnancy test? Points for the question, because you made me think. I'm a man and used to marvel at the seeming stupidity of all these girls--almost every day, it seemed like--who described having unprotected sex, usually with symptoms, and then asked "Could I be pregnant?" The male reaction to which is "Of course, you ditz, didn't anyone ever tell you that that's the way you...

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Why is the number of casinos increasing in the US? Reason #1 is that many Americans are too stupid and too lazy to do math and too stupid to realize that people don't build and staff those big expensive buildings to make THEM rich. Reason #2 is that gambling is rather like injecting amphetamines but without the needle marks. Gambling creates a drug-like effect from internally-manufactured endorphins and adrenaline that can be every...

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Was Troy a part of Ancient Greece or was a it a separate country? Troy was a city-state, just like most of the cities in Athens. It was not part of Greece and never became part of Greece because it was totally destroyed. Even Greece at that time wasn't a country, just a group of related city-states, each with its own foreign policy and which could even make war on another without the consent of other Greek cities. It was only Alexander the Great who...

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Do you think Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR was the number one reason why it lost in World War II? As Churchill wrote in "The Hinge of Fate," the Allies were confident of ultimate victory because Germany had been unable to stand against an encircling alliance for the previous 300 years--but there was a mistake BEFORE the mistake, and that was the absolutely stupid decision between Hitler and Air Marshal Goering that they were losing too many planes attacking British radar so they...

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So we are all heading back into time what will you do to change history? Murder Karl Marx before he wrote any of his horrendous books, and thereby save at least 120 million innocent lives--so far. I'd consider it a privilege to hang for such a "crime."

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Who is a bigger threat to world peace: russia or iran? Definitely Iran. Although Russia isn't a peaceful country nor is Putin a trustworthy world leader, all it wants to do is counterbalance the United States (for its own self-serving purposes) and restore its empire. It is no longer ideologically driven and if it even thinks anymore about world domination, that would have to be about three centuries down the road after it figures out how to...

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Do trace amounts of thimerosal found in infant vaccines cause an infant/child cerebral atrophy and/or migrational brain disorders? There is a bug in the Answerbag program and has been for two years now which they don't seem competent to solve, and that is that they often don't allow replies to comments, so here is my reply to the insulting reply of Theocidal Maniac to my defense of a post. You must be losing the argument; you've resorted to insults, which mainly show that you don't know what...

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Is Global Warming Real? This dude on prisonplanet.com really believe it's fake. He believes that world governments are creating world treats (al-queda/ Global Warming /United Nations) to create a World Government. What do you all believe? Please respond. MMCCC--man-made catastrophic climate change--is not happening, though the climate may be changing because of changes in the sun. Attributing it to man, however, is the best excuse that leftists have ever come up with for seizing total power over every man, woman, and child on earth. That's why so many environmental extremists are watermelons--green on the outside, red on the inside.

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What have you discovered? That Doubting Thomas had an identical twin brother--and that that's why he doubted; he thought that a ringer might be impersonating Jesus after his crucifixion and burial and wouldn't believe it was Jesus risen from the dead until he actually felt the nail prints in his hands and the spear wound in his side.

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What kind of house pet do you have? Dust bunnies.

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How do annoy a scottish person? I saw a Scot and a Jew waiting for a bus, and when it came around the corner the Scot ran up a block to meet it and the Jew ran down a block to wait for it. So I said, "All right, boys, I know you're both stingy, but what's the story? Why did you do different things?" And the Jew said "I wanted a longer ride for my money," and the Scot said "I wanted to...

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Do you think a One-World government would be good, or bad? And if you don't like it, or if they start oppressing you or your group, where are you going to flee to? Governments tend to increase their power over their citizens over time, and eventually that power may become absolute. All power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. A one-world government would be extremely powerful, and your wishes, needs and interests would mean...

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Which do you prefer brown chicken eggs or white chicken eggs? why? When I've seen brown and white eggs from the same salesperson, and taken them home to compare, I've found that the white eggs have a deeper yellow yolk. The deeper the color, the more nutrients there are in the yolk. Another measure of egg quality: The higher the white stands and the less runny it is, the fresher it is. If you've got one that runs all over the frying pan,...

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Do you tip less because the economy sucks? Never undertip a waiter if you ever expect to go back to that restaurant. Almost all waiters and waitresses are ethical; but those who aren't may put disgusting things in your food if they feel aggrieved by you.

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Is there anyone here that likes other cultures more than the American culture? The wise thing to do is to take the best parts of our culture and repudiate the bad ones, and replace them with good features of other cultures. As an example of what I mean, I live in Ukraine, and although (usually by using Russian) they do have some profane expressions and dirty words, I've gone out of my way not to learn them and it makes life much more pleasant and relaxing. If...

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Do you think home schooling, is just as effective as someone who attends a public school? Of course not. It is vastly MORE effective, in every way. It is so much more effective that government schools know they can't compete and whine that home schoolers are skimming the cream--but when ordinary children are home-schooled, they BECOME the cream.

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I was wondering if you can tell me what nationality the last name Wilson is? thank you for your help It's English, of course. I'd guess that almost half the world's surnames are "son of .... somebody," and son of Will, or Will's son, naturally became Wilson.

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What is the best Frank sinatra song? "Saying Something Stupid" with Nancy Sinatra.

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Do both parents in a joint custody situation need to provide permission for their child to be baptized? It depends on the child's age, but I think you have the question backwards. What you are asking is "If parents are in a joint custody situation, does one parent have veto power over the other's decision to get the child baptized?" My answer to that would be no. Whether the child is baptized or not concerns chiefly the child, and if one strongly believes that it is...

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The UN has 6 official languages (English, French, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Arabic). If the UN were to add another one, which language should it be and why? Cretin. (Not Cretan, Cretin. Most of the delegates need about a quart of iodine in their thyroid glands.)

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If you ate nothing but donuts and coffee, how long would it take you to die of malnutrition? You'd die of heartburn first.

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How can Senator Obama lose the election? By saying what he actually believes, thinks, and intends, rather than concealing it from the voters.

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Have you ever had to work near a person that was a sweetie-pie, but don't believe they have ever attended the "Personal Hygiene 101" class?? How do you tell someone that they need to shower/brush their teeth without hurting their feelings? Some people have no sense of smell. I know one who started flossing after his dentist extracted a chunk of rotting meat from between his teeth and said "Couldn't you smell it?"

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How can I clean up shattered glass from a glass-top deck table? The entire glass top shattered and much of it fell through the decking into pea gravel. Would it work to just take a sledge hammer to the pea gravel? Break the glass into small enough pieces and it shouldn't be dangerous to leave it there.

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How did jesus know he was the son of god The same way we do--he learned some of the 300 prohecies concerning the Messiah during his religious training and compared them with his own life. The Messiah had to be born in that time and place, and he would have the same characteristics Jesus--and nobody else--had.

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How did jesus know he was the son of god As a Jewish boy, his entire education would have been learning as much of the Scriptures as possible by rote. Now, there are over 300 prophecies concerning the coming Messiah in the Old Testament, though some of them concern the Second Coming. The same as anyone today, Jesus would have compared these prophecies with his own life and realized that the Messiah had to be born at that time and...

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Would you think it weird if you saw a person a lady wearing the same clothes over and over every week to work? I live in Ukraine. Don't know if it still happens, but a few years ago while Eastern Europe was staggering up out of its Communist poverty I saw many people, especially women and girls, wear exactly the same outfit to school or work five days a week. It was usually very nice, but it was apparently all they had. They changed out of it as soon as they got home and hung it up to air, and...

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What does the British slang phrase 'I'm in the same boat' mean? "Boat" means "unpleasant or difficult situation as you."

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My aunty got a cist (a rigid like of muscle blockage)on her upper part of interior right breast .. as physically when pressed it it is like somewhat rigid..... what is this dieases?? she is taking homeopathy treatment from her doctor?? what should i do? Get a different doctor. Sometime this past year, after one hundred years of scientific studies of homeopathy, the federal government pronounced that homeopathy is completely worthless and that none of its remedies is any better than a placebo. The government also announced this year that even placebos don't work--some people simply get well without taking medicine. Homeopathy is worse...

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Why are blonde girls meant to be the most attractive? (im blonde so be nice) A lot of girls born blonde get steadily darker with age, therefore blonde is associated with youth and youth is, up to a point, considered attractive.

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Why do Chinese corporations seem to have such little regard for human life? Have you started checking what your buying, and where it's made? Or does it not bother you... Wily Chinese government exports their solid pollution to the West disguised as merchandise to save landfill space.

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Which is greater, the percentage of people who are gonna vote for Obama because he is black, or the percentage of people who arent gonna vote for him because he is black? Dennis Prager just talked about the fact that none of the thousands of E-mails he's gotten about Obama said anything negative about his race. Not one. Not even negative, let alone abusive. Frankly, I'd be happier with McCain's positions if McCain were black, and I'd be more likely to vote for him if he were.

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What person, past or present, would you want to try to talk/slap some sense into their head? Theodore Roosevelt never should have divided the Republican Party. This led directly to the election of Woodrow Wilson, which arguably led to our participation in World War I, which arguably led directly to Nazism, Communism, nuclear weapons and Islamo-Fascism.

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What were the major reasons behind the stock market crash of 1929 and the global depression that followed? There were half a dozen causes. I can only remember three. The one you always hear about was speculation in the stock market, but perhaps the biggest reason was protectionism. In 1930, President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law despite please from one thousand economists not to do so. This law almost immediately cut world trade in half and threw millions of people out of...

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Name a song with a day of the week in the title? Monday, Monday Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down Saturday In the Sun Another Pleasant Valley Sunday Sunday, Sweet Sunday (from Flower Drum Song) Saturday In the Park

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Ok, really funny answers to "Do I look fat in this?" No, you look phat in that.

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How do you get out of a rut you did not create, and the person who got you there won't leave and won't stop the damage? That's what I asked Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, but they're both filthy rich and getting richer screwing the taxpayers over.

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A good friend of mine says she would enjoy football alot more if the players wouldn't hit each other so hard and be nicer to each other. Do you agree with her? Football is controlled fighting. If she wants to see something similar that isn't, she should watch soccer.

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If you had a pet that was a food animal (dove, rabbitt, etc) and it died at a relatively young age would you eat it? If a rabbit dies on its own, you should suspect tularemia and dispose of it immediately since tularemia is one of those rare diseases that can jump species. It can also be fatal.

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Chinese government, in particular, seems to be incapable and/or uninterested to implement proper measures; thus filling up world market with bunch of junks. Isn't it the time that we all stand up and demand a better quality from imported goods? You have to understand their strategy: they don't have enough landfill space, so they disguise their garbage as merchandise and ship it to us. Every time something falls apart after a single use, turns out to be unusable (like playing cards that aren't plastic-coated) or of incredibly low quality (dishcloths with dyes that run and which start shedding fibers immediately) I look on...

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Why does the body become dependent on drugs Drugs are poisonous, and the body produces biochemicals to defend against them. After a while, the biochemicals win and it takes a higher dose to get the same effect. This is a vicious circle because the biochemicals themselves are poisonous and demand drugs to work on or they cause unpleasant symptoms in the body. Eventually you are taking toxically high doses of whatever, not to feel high...

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When a math book says to simplify a math problem, what does it mean? Usually, that would mean dividing both sides of the equation by the largest common factor. That might still leave you with a quadratic equation to solve, but you'd have some of the arithmetic out of the way.

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If nonane is higher than octane, why isn't nonane used instead? There is nonane in gasoline, also decane, but the heavier a hydrocarbon molecule becomes the more like kerosene it gets. Gasoline is supposed to evaporate easily in the carburetor so that each molecule of hydrocarbon is completely surrounded by air. Octane is the ideal size to evaporate in your carburetor but not to vapor-lock in your gas tank. This is an oversimplification but it will...

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I know this is not a question but, I spend plenty of time here and I wanted to tell every one that my wife is "PREGNANT"!!! I am sooo happy. Yay! Babies!

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What do I do when I can't get my 3&1/2 yr old to poop in the potty? He's been in underwear since his 3rd Bday. He's pees great and I've tried rewarding him with stickers, toys, praise, etc and nothing works. We'v even read stories to try and keep himon Find a copy of Azrin and Nunn's "Toilet Training in Less than a Day." I trained five children that way, all in less than a day. Two of them had accidents and needed a half-day refresher, and two or three of them also stopped wetting their diaper at night. It's a wonderful book.

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Why did the 'prophet' Elisha curse 42 Hebrew children for calling him bald and call two bears to attack and tear them to pieces? (Old Testament Book of Kings) I'm glad you asked, since I'm a full-time professional Bible translator who also taught beginning Hebrew for seven years. In the first place, it doesn't say the bears tore them "to pieces," but only mauled them. In the second place, the word "children" was used of Joseph when he was 28 years old, so it's a mistranslation. They weren't...

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Have you ever held up a sign while in public? If so, what did it say? "Vote for the Dweeb!" Obama supporters didn't like it, though.

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Weirdest meat you have eaten Wart hog (tastes like cheap pork). Frog legs (taste like somewhat tough and meager chicken wings.) Impala (best meat in the world--like beef, but better.) Pork lung (reminds you of chewing gum).

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Do we have any certain examples of ancient nonreligious fiction? [2-3000 years old] Greek and Roman comedies. (The tragedies were all at least partly religious.) Aesop's Fables.

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Why do teenage people get pregnant at a young age? Judging by the hundreds of times girls on AB have asked whether they can get pregnant after having sex, it's because some teenaged girls in heat have an IQ that's smaller than their belt size.

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I'm considering taking beginner Latin in college... Do you think it would be an extremely hard class? That depends on you and whether you've ever taken a language before. If you have, it shouldn't be too hard, and besides, it's worth the effort. It also depends on you. Winston Churchill flunked Latin I three times--he just couldn't get it. But most people aren't Churchills.

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Smokers: What do you smoke and how much does it cost you a pack?? I smoke Marlboro Red 100's and it cost's me around $4 a pack Ha ha! I smoke (rarely) Belomor-canals in Ukraine and pay 30 cents a pack!

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So Thursday night I went to bed and gas at my local Speedway next door was $3.59, Friday evening it jumps to $3.98 and now its $4.23. I hear the hurricane has drove up gas prices. Who else woke up to gas raised for no reason but a pay for bush to profit? There are excellent reasons for prices to rise quickly after natural disasters. For one thing, it encourages conservation--you won't take in your motor home for a fillup "just in case," and that will mean three tankfulls saved for other peoples' cars. For another thing, it compensates people for a lot of extra effort to get supplies where they are needed. If, and ONLY if,...

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My parents homeschool me because i got caught with achohol and i was kissin a 17 year old guy at school im 14 .....do yall think thats fair No, it's not fair... you have MUCH better parents than you deserve. In other words, it's not unfair and it's not fair. It's better than fair! And when you're mature, you'll be very grateful to them for it.

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Is it true that people eat rat burgers in india? In southeast Asia, and probably parts of India, people of non-vegetarian religions do consume field rats. These are not the filthy rats of the cities, but grain-fed rodents. If they didn't kill them, they would destroy up to 30% of the rice crop; and once they're caught and dead, it seems foolish not to get back some of the rice they have consumed and destroyed in protein form. I...

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Has religion been the source of any evil in the world, or can it all be blamed on something else? There is good religion and bad religion. Jesus said something that is true, not just because Jesus said it, but because it corresponds to the world we live in: if the fruits are bad, the tree is bad. He thus suggests that we use that to evaluate each particular religion, and if we find one where the fruits are good, its claims are worth investigating. But if the fruits are bad--for example,...

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How bad are the mosquitoes where you live? I've lived in Ternopil, Ukraine, for 15 years now and have maybe been bitten once even though the weather and climate seem to be just like Wisconsin's, where they are really bad. Some entomologist ought to come here and find out why we don't have mosquito problems. The government does nothing to control them--it never has. I've killed a few, but always on walls and always...

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What is the first thing you think of when I mention balloons? Keep them away from small children! They're the #1 toy killer.

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What was your all time favorite television show theme somg? The Lone Ranger. William Tell Overture by Rossini.

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Can you please tell me how on earth anyone in this day and age take the Bible literally? Isn't this more of an escapism than a religion? I'm the kind of person you're thinking of, and very knowledgeable, and we dont' talk about taking the Bible "literally," we talk about taking it "seriously." That means that we read the history as history, the parables as stories illustrating a point, the proverbs as distilled wisdom to be discussed to death, the psalms as hymns for worship, Revelation as a...

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Can somebody teach me, on how to do the proper breathing in singing pls answer because i dont have enough many for singing lessons Two things you can do that cost nothing and should help a lot are to join a choir and go to the library. Maybe the internet would also have some useful stuff, I don't know.

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Can you name a popular movie that starts with J? Jaws, Jaws II, and Jews (the third one is about a LOAN shark).

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Does space ever end? This has been answered several times on AB. As briefly as possible, it seems that the universe is expanding and that the farther away stars and things get, the faster they pick up speed. When they reach the speed of light, no further information about them can get back to us, so for all practical purposes they have left our universe.

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I feel lost & worthless. Family wants me to pursue a certain career but I'm not making the grades. I want to do something I'm passionate about but I 'll be looked down on in my family, a black sheep if I can't be what they want me to be. I want to die.. Better to be a live black sheep than depressed or dead. Did you ever hear about Joe? Everyone in the family looked down on him because the family business sickened him--he couldn't stand the smell of fish so he stayed out of the boat and played baseball all the time. Yeah, the DiMaggios sure looked down on Joe. You could be the next Joe DiMaggio, but you've gotta follow YOUR...

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Would you enjoy *American Idol* more if the artists were only allowed to perform songs they had personally written/co-written? Of course not. Didn't you know that most of the biggest & best popular singers don't write their own music? Having a gorgeous voice and having the ability to compose are two entirely different things. There are 100,000 violinists for every Mendelssohn.

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What is the first thing that comes to mind when i say "most beautiful part of a woman"? You have GOT to be kidding. If her face isn't pretty, nothing else matters.

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Do you think it is right to force a child to sit there and finish everything on their plate? I may have answered this already--No, that encourages obesity. Our rule (and none of my five kids is fat like I and my brothers are) was simply that they couldn't have the next meal till the finished the last one. This meant that last night's dinner was sometimes most of the next day's breakfast, but I never heard any complaints.

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On what teaching is purgatory based? I'm not sure the question has been answered yet, so here goes from what a Lutheran professor taught me: The whole structure of purgatory was built up like an upside-down pyramid on a single statement by Saint Monica, mother of Augustine: she asked him to pray for her after her death. This led theologians to ask why, and conjecture answers, and then to look for things to back up their...

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Do you know someone who's prettier without makeup? Meaning they don't need to wear makeup at all because it only conceals their natural beauty. Only if she doesn't use it skilfully, which is all too often the case. But while I've got your attention, since makeup is so often just a masquerade, why not a Miss America Minus Makeup contest? For all we know, half those young women could be as plain, homely or downright ugly as some of the "Celebrities Without Makeup" you can find on the net. I've seen on TV...

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How long did you sleep last night? Six hours. Got up & worked for a couple hours (I work at home), went back to bed for an hour, went out in the afternoon and exerted myself, and took a 90 minute nap. Working at home is the best!

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Would you ever ever send flowers to yourself??? If you had no boyfriend and it was your bday? Thank you for an insight into the feminine psyche that I wouldn't have had if they put me in solitary to think about nothing else for ten thousand years.

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Describe yourself in one word begining with L? Leveroprotein.

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Are you the class of 19-something or 2000-something? It's not an answer to your question, but it made me think of something I often contemplate because I live in Ukraine, former Soviet Union. The ENTIRE class of 42 was wiped out to the last man. Except for the crippled, the retarded, and the very few who got field-promoted to officers, there are no men in Ukraine or Russia who were born in 1924. They were all killed by the Nazis. Most...

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Do you think bottled water is a waste of money? Here in Europe, what we do with our water is that first we boil it, then we filter it, then to be PERFECTLY safe we throw it away and drink beer.

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Do you think bottled water is a waste of money? Yes. And it's not fluoridated so kids are getting more cavities from drinking it.

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How do you tell someone, in a nice way, that their breath smells? Maybe you shouldn't. I told someone about his halitosis and he said he had pyorrhea and couldn't do anything about it.

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What is a good,no...great, comeback line for if someone calls you short? "Some men are measured from the neck up, and some from the neck down." (Prime Minister David Lloyd George of England, about 1914.)

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Why does it take me 10-15 minutes of waiting in line to checkout? Why can't Wal-mart have more registers open? Their profits aren't high enough to employ a lot of check-out clerks because of all the shoplifting that goes on.

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Do you ever use your PC's calculator function? I keep an abacus by the keyboard.

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Has anyone ever had a "tickle" in their ear? I've been using Q-tips lately in mine...could that be the reason behind the "tickles"..if so..I've heard by using a couple drops of peroxide may stop the tickles. Is that so? Is peroxide safe to use in the ear? If all else fails, it may be that you have a skin irritation from scratching & using q-tips. I can't remember right now what the prescription item is for that, but I'm going to answer this now so that I can find your question again if I find the name of the medicine. It's somewhere on my desk. Meanwhile, a couple drops of olive oil wouldn't hurt, and neither would...

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Would you join a gym if they paid you for your labor and you pushed and pulled your potential energy converting it to electricity on future exercise equipment? Don't flatter yourself. You couldn't generate enough electricity to pay for use of the machine. If you hooked an exercise bike to a light bulb you'd barely get enough light to read by.

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On what teaching is purgatory based? The opening paragraph of the New Catholic Encyclopedia says that the doctrine of purgatory is not found in Holy Scripture. Everybody needs to know that.

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Try and remember: which exam(s) did you pass with flying colors in the past school days? My Advanced Placement English teacher assigned us "Word Power" for a test in six weeks. I got 100% and the next highest grade was 37. It was a really boring book, but I had the idea of reading two pages of it, then an article in the Digest, two more pages and another article, till I got through it.

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At what point does alcohol become a problem? The other answers are good, but a useful scientific one is that the government determined and announced after years of study that a daily intake above three ounces of hard liquor (that would be three glasses of one or a glass and a half of fortified wine or two and a half cans of beer) is toxic and will lead to degeneration of health. And of course if that's your daily intake, it...

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Can fish drown? do they drink? A fish drowns when it is in water without oxygen, for example in a too-crowded aquarium, or if you put a piece of glass on top of a fishbowl. Freshwater fish are saltier than the water they are in and absorb water automatically, so they don't drink but do urinate. Saltwater fish are less salty than the ocean, so they do drink but urinate very little.

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I have a cousin in the USMC who recently returned from Iraq, and I would like to continue to send support to people who need it. Does anyone have any suggestions, or know anyone who may need a care package? There is also opgratitude.com, which sends a care package for ten dollars. They recently cent their 350,000th care package. For some, it's the only mail they have gotten their whole deployment.

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My friend tnobody and I both agree that the government should put a cap on gas prices. Not that they should dictate the price, but just not let the price become too excessive, and to be sure it's not becoming a monopoly. What do you think? Capping prices has been tried by governments since Vespasian's in Rome. The results have always been exactly the same kind of disaster: shortages followed by the price ending up much higher than the capped price. This is why we study history: to find out what's been tried and doesn't work. You and your friend have re-invented the square wheel.

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How much harder is it to play piano and sing at the same time, than just playing piano? If one has never done so, how difficult is it to learn do so? First you have to learn the piano part perfectly, almost memorized. Then you have to do the same with the words. When you know them by heart, or almost, then you can put them together; and with further practice you can sing without looking at the music, and even without looking at your hands in some cases.

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George washington: criminal or hero One of the three or four greatest men in all of human history. If you think he is a criminal you're not comparing the country he fathered with any other that has ever existed, you're comparing it with some Utopia that never has existed and never will.

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With inflation at the worst levels in 27 years, should Republicans force President Bush to change his middle name to Jimmy or Carter? Whether or not it is Bush's fault, he's going to be out in six months because of term limits. What we need now is term limits for senators and representatives, most of whom don't give a rip about the taxpayers but only their own personal perks, power, and money.

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What is the best thing sliced bread? Cold cuts and plastic-wrapped cheese slices.

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What chemical or treatment other than replacing a whole house of carpet gets out pet urine stains? Is there a company, or chemical that works? Mary Hunt of EverydayCheapskate.com strongly recommends nokout.com for the worst of odors and says that unlike most treatments, that just try to mask the odor, Nokout actually destroys them chemically. She specifically mentioned pet stains.

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Are people not allowed to make generalizations about things anymore? It seems once one is made, someone always says "Not ALL of them are like that"...etc. The safe way is to make a generalization, give a good example, and then make a disclaimer. For example, Generalization: Environmentalists don't care very much about people. Example: They've banned DDT in Africa and been directly responsible for about 50 million deaths, and although all their reasons for thinking DDT is terrible have been disproved, they won't withdraw...

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Hey Im trying to find out if i have Jewish Blood My Moms last name is Blum and its been said we might have Jewish roots can anybody help me out?? my last name is Cassel. But is Blum a Jewish surname? Blum or Blume is a German and Yiddish word that means flower. Jews in Europe adopted surnames later than other people--I think they just went by patronymics like "Johann's son" which were inadequate--and when they were ordered to take surnames there were restrictions on the kind of surnames they could use. That is why many of them took surnames of their trades, of geographic...

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I got bit over a week ago at work, on my boob, and the bruise is still there, how long do you think it will take it to go away, and is there a chance of scaring.. the person who bit me broke the skin.. I don't know, but unless you started it you have a clear case of assault and battery. Get a dated photograph quick! You should be able to sue the person for enough to teach him or her some manners.

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True or false: A zebra cannot be ridden by an adult human? The zebra has quite a different type of skeleton from the horse, and it can't be ridden very many times by an adult before suffering a serious or even fatal back injury.

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Are all Russian girls gorgeous? No, but Russian and Ukainian girls are much more attractive than most nationalities, at least by Western standards. (I live in Ukraine and have visited many of its cities.) For one thing, almost none are overweight, and there are many reasons for that including the absence of fast food and the delay factor in cooking from scratch. For another, most of them are very busy, too busy to cook...

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What good is ancient history in modern day tasks? A lot of people think that Victor Davis Hanson's book "A War Like No Other" about the Peloponnesian War has direct applicability to the war in Iraq. I don't know; haven't read it. But history is just extended memory. If you know a lot of history, your memory goes back to ancient Sumeria and not just to when you were five. You don't make the same mistakes...

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Me and my boyfriend had un-protected sex everytime we had sex. && he did not pull out at anytime. i was 2 weeks late for my period && just got it today but it doesnt look like a normal period. so i wanna know if i can be pregnant or not? Didn't your mother ever tell you that having sex results in having babies? And that the younger you are and the oftener you do it the likelier it is to happen? Of COURSE you could be pregnant. You could have been pregnant five minutes after the first time you did it. You could have been pregnant five minutes after EVERY time you did it.

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Have you ever eaten roe before? Yeah, I live in Ukraine where caviar is common. Beluga is okay, I love the red from salmon and that's what the picture was on the can I bought. Well, it turned out to be just ordinary fish roe, salty, fishy, not bad on crackers but nothing like salmon roe which is one of my favorite treats. I won't eat beluga anymore because the sturgeon is endangered.

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If a man walked into your house, put a billion in cash on your coffee table and told you its yours as long as you have sex with every man in Sing Sing prison, would you do it? Dumb question. Even in hundred dollar bills, a billion dollars would fill a semitrailer. Besides which prisons don't let people out OR in.

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-A food you buy already sliced? The best pickles are the lengthwise-sliced kosher dills. And if you can go to a food warehouse like Sam's Club and get pineapple spears... I think I could live on those!

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Which is a better government: communism or monarchy? Some monarchies are good (Britain, Norway) and some are bad (Saudi Arabia). However, every government that has called itself Communist has started repressing, imprisoning, torturing and slaughtering its own people. Every new one who comes along says "The others weren't real Communists, but we are"--but it always ends up the same way. On balance you have a chance with...

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If I was a painter, what piece of work could I never finish? The Eiffel Tower is constantly being repainted by a crew of workers. When they get to the bottom they go up to the top and start over.

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Do you judge a book by it's cover?(referring to people) Sometimes they obviously WANT to be judged by their cover--full body tattoos, for instance, punk hair, lots of piercings. Or a suit. Or Gothic.

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Are crocs and alligators fast? If not why don't people just run away? I don't think they are that fast because they have small legs. Or maybe you could climb a tree? They're faster than you are. The only way to get away from them is to zigzag because they run in a straight line and it is difficult for them to turn quickly.

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What are the most dangerous toys you can think of? Lawn Darts, sparklers etc. Balloons kill more young children than anything. They choke on the pieces when they pop.

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Ohio passed a new Independence day law that says if a "suspected" drunk driver refuses to take a breath test the police can take said drive to the hospital for a forced blood test. Does this violate the drivers right to an unreasonable search and seizure You are driving a 3,000 pound vehicle at high speeds on land and roads paid for by other people, who have a right to expect that you won't be driving while you're drunk and endangering all of our lives. If you aren't willing to give a breath test and don't want a blood test, stay home, walk, ride a bicycle or take a cab.

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How come Mary's original sin had no effect on Jesus? Think of original sin as "lack of original righteousness." Adam and Eve were conceived without any desire to commit sin--the impulse had to come from the outside and they were inherently kind, generous, unselfish, worshipful, truthful, friendly... possessing every virtue. They lost this when they sinned, which is why children are born selfish and narcissistic and don't need to...

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What are your thoughts on tatoos? What I've heard is that 24% of people with tattoos are getting them removed ten years later. But go ahead; in today's tight job market, why not give potential employers yet another reason to lose your job application?

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If my father has a gun in his house,what must I do?(I will not tell the police) Mind your own business. He's got the gun to protect you and your mother from criminals. And by the way, statistically, children (I mean children, not referring to 16-year-old inner-city delinquents) are about 100 times more endangered by a family swimming pool than they are by the presence of a handgun. You can look it up in "Freakonomics".

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If i could only afford to visit America once and it was for three months, where would be the places i should see and go.? Yellowstone, of course. And something few people seem to know about, one of the most beautiful buildings on earth, is the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of National Catholic University in Washington, D.C. It's so awesome inside that I've forgotten what it looks like outside. It takes a couple hours just to look at everything in it.

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What, if anything, would you do to improve the prison system in the United States? It seems to me we could get a lot more cheap laborers out of the deal if we were not so concerned how our prisoners are treated. Any thoughts? There are coal mines and sand and gravel pits all over the USA where prisoners could be put to work digging and carrying and getting fed only if they meet their quota. This isn't cruel or unusual; it's what the Third World economy is like. It probably couldn't be made profitable, unless you consider the deterrent effect--nobody who's ever been in a place like that would...

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Why do people fear a one world government? One of the first things a government does when it gets powerful enough is to start persecuting believers in God. The world's 1.6 billion Christians don't want a one-world government because then there would be nowhere to run to and no source of outside help.

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Am i wrong? how much is too much to talk to an ex? My bf talks to his ex too much and she calls too much 3 times a day. I also caught him in a lie, they went to a movie behind my back. I don't know what to do bc this is hurting me. he say I dont trust him Of course you don't trust him. Except on a ruler, the distance between zero and one is not the same as the distance between one and two, or for that matter between one and a hundred. If he'd never lied or stepped out, he probably never would. If he has lied or stepped out, he probably always will--again and again and again.

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Do you have more or fewer than 10 pairs of pants? More, unfortunately, because my weight has varied between 170 and 260 during my adult life. I keep them all because, hallelujah, it's going down again!

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A very close friend/relative of yours is a teacher & has been charged w/ having sex with a 17 yr student. Assume they are guilty & admit this to you. Does your treatment of & relationship with this person change? What if the student was 13 instead of 17? Thirteen is about pre-pubescent and the only thing you can do with pedophiles who like prepubescent children is, on the first offense, lock them up for life or execute them. They virtually never change and usually leave hundreds of victims behind them, some of them dead.

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Absent minded things you've done? The number of times I've put soap on my toothbrush is too high to count. That's a Freudian slip. You really must stop cussing.

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Why do boys not like to be called cute? Part of the reason is that "cute" implies looking attractive because of being "small" and usually "very young." It is also pretty much confined to the face. Use a synonym--"pretty boy"--and it'll be obvious why boys don't like to be called cute.

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Why was the book of mormon created and what is its purpose?, when compared to the bible This is a response to Otter but Answerbag wouldn't post it as such. Any informed Trinitarian Christian who investigates Mormonism and compares its beliefs to ours will have to conclude that one is the original and the other is a counterfeit. Counterfeits, of course, look as much like the original as possible. Any Trinitarian who looks at Jehovah's Witnesses or Christian Science...

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What were the causes of the Cold war? Communist orthodoxy was that history passed through five stages and that we were in the fourth stage, in which capitalism and what they called state socialism (what we called communism) were locked in conflict for control of the world. When, and only when, capitalism was utterly annihilated everywhere on earth, state socialism could peacefully transform itself into the communist paradise on...

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What would the world be like today if the art school in Germany had accepted Adolph Hitler in his youth, and he had become an artist like he wanted to be? The Communists would have taken over Germany from the inside and the Soviet Union would have conquered all of Europe, used its resources to conquer Britain, and detached some to help with the Communization of the rest of Asia. Although Hitler was an exceptionally evil man, he still had his uses, because without him there would have been no stopping the Communists. They might even have managed...

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Unlike Europeans, why do Americans switch forks to the right hand after cutting meat? It's natural to use a spoon or fork with your more dexterous hand, and until very modern times it was highly unusual to have a slab of meat on your plate every day. Now you've made me curious--though I live in Europe, and have of course seen people eat meat with their left hands, I don't notice whether they switch back for items that don't need to be cut. I'll try to...

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Do you drink enough milk? Milk is baby food, and entire nationalities drink virtually none, so it obviously contains nothing that adults can't get from other sources. Therefore the answer from any adult should be "yes," no matter how much or how little they drink, unless they know they aren't getting enough of some nutrient or other. It's a convenient but calorific way of getting vitamin D,...

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What is the word for something that is unnecessarily repetitive, such as toxic venom, or freezing chill? I don't know--you'd better ask at the Department of Redundancy Department.

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Why was the book of mormon created and what is its purpose?, when compared to the bible We don't, unless we want to change religions. I'm not criticizing the Mormons here, just stating that it looks like Christianity but isn't. Or to put it a different way, either the Mormons are Christians and everybody else isn't, or those who have traditionally called themselves Christians are Christians and the Mormons aren't. The Mormons may be kind, good, decent...

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Who beat the Nazis in WWII, America or Russia? The Allies more than the Soviet Union. Eisenhower held back our armed forces from advancing too quickly so as to allow the Soviets to advance to the place where they finally met. I can't document this, unfortunately, and don't know whether he did so under orders from Roosevelt or not. A lot of people agree with General Patton that if he hadn't been held back the war could have...

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What is neptunes average mass? Big planets don't have "average" mass. Their mass only increases. Because what goes up must come down, but what comes down usually stays down.

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My boyfriend for 3 years calls me ugly and a psychopath.I've done so much for him & he now says he deserves a beautiful and influential girl(I belong to an average family).He often tortures me with his abuses and saying bad things to me.What should I do? What you are is a masochist. Fortunately, masochism can be cured by finding that you can get more pleasure, real pleasure, out of a normal relationship with a nice man--and not hanging around with the kind of idiot who would have an ugly psychopath for a girlfriend. (Tell him you're doing him a favor.)

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I am a ballet dancer, what could cause my knees to ache really badly? In addition to other answers, which seem pretty smart, you could try nutritional supplements like chondroitin, MSM, glucosamine, blue grape juice with fruit pectin, and getting the upper parts of a pair of large men's socks, letting castor oil soak into them, and wearing them for half an hour or more each day when they hurt. All of the above help my arthritic fingers. Of course, you may...

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What type of clothing is predominant in your wardrobe? Nothing there but slacks and button-down shirts. I resolved a long time ago never to buy another shirt with only one pocket, because I need one for my Daytimer (for those of you in Rio Linda, that's a pocket computer made of paper in a leather wallet) and the other for sunglasses and/or MP3 player.

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I am Roman Catholic and my boyfriend is Muslim. I want to get married in a Catholic church and he wants to get married his way also. Can both be done. When children are born can they both be raised with both religions? One can be either Catholic or Muslim, never under any circumstances both. Catholics believe in the Holy Trinity and that Jesus is the Son of God. Muslims believe that "God has no wife, so how can He have a Son?" Islam and Catholicism are mutually exclusive religions. If you believe in one, by definition you have to disbelieve in the other.

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You're given an unlimited amount of money, but it can only be used to post one billboard in every city in the entire country, what does your billboard say? "Thousands of eminent scientists reject the idea that human activities will cause catastrophic climate change, that human activity can prevent it, or that trying to do so is a good use for our money."

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If the odds are highly against an event occurring (say, 10^50 to 1 against or worse), can you say that said event is truly impossible? Is there a difference between "impossible" and "highly improbable"? Hi, Jerv, I tried to post this as a comment but answerbag often lets you type out a long and thoughtful answer and then won't post it. How do you send those guys a letter bomb? Or at least a stinky insult card? Asimov in one of his books calculates the highest number that can correspond to anything possible in our universe. I keep rereading his books to look for that number so I...

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"If at first you don't succeed, try again. " No. I've already tried it once, I obviously can't do it. Why waste my life trying again when I know I'm incompetent? I say give it two tries and then try something else. Failing helps you redirect your energies to something you may be better at.

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How do I break my diet soda addiction when I hate drinking plain water and juices have too much sugar and give me a stomach ache? I mix juices with two thirds club soda. I also make concentrated iced tea and mix it with club soda.

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If the odds are highly against an event occurring (say, 10^50 to 1 against or worse), can you say that said event is truly impossible? Is there a difference between "impossible" and "highly improbable"? More usefully, when someone agrees that the odds against something having happened are higher than one times ten to the fiftieth, you can say "It may not be impossible, but it didn't happen that way." When I look at the millions of species of plant and animal that seem to have been perfectly designed, and someone tells me that they all got here by chance, I calculate the...

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Why does george bush hide queers in his cabbinet? They're too big for the refrigerator.

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I getting married in 2 months and I dont know what we should do for our honey moon. what should I do? It's good that you asked. The answer is "Plan!" Plan a neat activity for every day, and plan how you will get to it and pay for it. Don't just drift. You may be surprised that as soon as the ceremony is over, you run out of things to say. That's why it's important to have things to do besides the obvious one. Lots of honeymoons are a disaster and a big reason...

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Would inserting tampons into one's nostrils be a good thing to do during a nosebleed? The way to stop a bad nosebleed is to pinch the bridge of your nose. Sometimes, oddly enough, you also have to let go, blow your nose once, and then pinch it again. Remember this. If you have a bad nosebleed while backpacking and don't know it, you could lose your life.

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Do you think English is the international language primarily because of Great Britain (empire around the world 18th-20th century), or the United States (victor of WWII and Cold War, largest economy and military in human history)? Both are reasons. Also, English is the language of technology and new inventions--the instructions for anything are likely to be first written in English. And it's easier to learn than other languages because we have fewer forms to memorize. Consider that the English verb has a maximum of five forms, except for the irregular verb "be". Most languages have six forms to...

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Iran is full of terrorists, when should we drop a nuclear weapon on Tehran? The Iranian GOVERNMENT is full of terrorists. The Iranian PEOPLE are generally pro-American. If our government wasn't so inept, it would have been encouraging, supporting and fomenting revolution in Iran for the last seven years already.

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When do you think that oil will rise to $150 a barrel? The price rise is happening because of various actions of Congress, and they are continuing such actions and increasing them, so you can depend on its getting there sooner rather than later. And the only thing you can do about it is vote most of them out just as a matter of principle--most of them, especially YOURS and MINE, have been there far too long. I'm going to vote against my...

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How do I know that answerbag has truly thousands of members & not just 1 homely nerd,living in his mom basement pretending to be different people? No one person could be that smart. Or that stupid.

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If God is all powerful then can he make a sandwhich he can't eat? cause if he can't eat it then he is not all powerful. What you're trying to do is make up a nonsense sentence starting with the words "Can God" so as to wish God out of existence. Good luck, but it won't work.

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Did Jesus ever ask that books (i.e. the gospels) be written about Him? He said "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will never pass away." And the Gospels, the books he intended be written, won't. But everything else he said has, and outside of the Gospels there are very few remotely reliable sayings of Jesus. One I like was found by archeologists, inscribed in India: "Jesus says, This life is a bridge. Pass over it, but do not...

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What does it really mean to "turn the other cheek"? If you ask someone to "strike you on the right cheek," you will realize that he has not swung an uppercut, haymaker or even thrown a punch at you; he has slapped you with the back of his hand, it's the only way to reach the right cheek. In other words, he has done something to offend and outrage you, not committed assault and battery. To turn the other cheek means you are...

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Some kid i know says ppl don't really need milk it does nothing for our bodies it contains calcium and minerals but our bodies can't absorb it and global warming isn't real the earth just goes through a cycle and no one needs meds what are ure thoughts? You should have asked three questions. First, milk is baby food. No adult "needs" it if he gets its nutrients from other food; a billion and a half Chinese never touch the stuff. Second, on global warming, there are thousands of scientists who agree with him and more agree with him every day. "no one needs meds" sounds like a faith-healing religion to me. Well,...

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Why cant we just replace the filament in our blown light bulbs, instead of buying new ones? 99.9% of the time, the answer to the question "Why don't they..." or "Why can't we..." is "Because it would cost too much." Glass is so cheap most bottles aren't even recycleable--you'd need hundreds of bulbs to be worth a nickel. The metal on a light bulb isn't even a dollar a pound, and the ceramics and plastics are absolutely...

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What can you do that's fantastic? Write in one foreign language while I'm speaking another foreign language.

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Do you think Susan Atkins, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel should be paroled? No, and their sentences shouldn't have been commuted, either. It's totally unjust that they took the lives of other people and got to keep their own.

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Should politicians be allowed to lie? Everyone who votes for a politician who has lied is saying that politicians should be allowed to lie. That being said, let's define "lie." Not that I think G.W.Bush is a great president, but when leftists endlessly repeated "Bush lied, people died," they were doing the lying, because to lie means to say something contrary to the facts when you know that it's...

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I have 3 F's that i just got on my report card..i have been dropping hints to my friends that i would like there help but they really aren't getting the hints. i don't know that to do though.should i keep on asking them or should i just ask someone else? Sadly, they aren't going to be your friends very long because you're going to have to repeat the school year. Ask your teachers for help.

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What would you say to a parent that tries to hold your inheritance, over your head? Hey, it's their money, and if they offer you vastly more than you can earn in exchange for your fulfilling some simple conditions, why not go along with it? On the other hand, if they want to control your whole life.... I know a young fellow who walked away from a million dollar farm because he hated farming. And never forget that until the person actually dies they can always change...

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When you make the transition from being a teenager to becoming an adult, do you forget how things made you feel because now it would be just silly? Cause it seems that adults don't get what we teens are feeling. We "get" what you are feeling, but we also "get" one thing that you don't--what it means to be an adult. This may not mean anything to you, but I became a man the day my father stopped telling me to get up and get to work and started telling me to sit down and take a rest. My brother became a man the day he stopped trying to get around my parents' rules, and...

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A hens egg contains all the food and water the developing embryo needs untill it hatches the eggshell has many holes making it porous why must the eggshell be porous Air. As a general rule, the amount of oxygen you need equals in weight the amount of food you consume, and although quite a lot of the egg's weight is water, quite a lot of air's weight is nitrogen, and my thumbnail calculation is that an egg would need at least a gallon of air exchanged before it hatches.

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Does walking on your toes have any negative medical effects? Google "Ballerina syndrome" and see. (Mostly it applies to horses.)

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What is the difference between a president and a prime minister A country can have both, the president being the head of state with strictly defined duties, and the prime minister being elected by his party in a partliamentary system. Usually it takes more than one party to get a majority in a parliament, and then they elected one of their number to lead the party. The prime minister can pretty much ignore the minority parties since almost every member of...

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The thermometer barely moves in my 98 Chevy Astro. Seems to be running fine. Could this be the electronic temperature coolant sensor? Would anyone know what to check or what to look for? Doesn't it move between the time when you turn it on and the time it reaches its set point? If it moves up gradually, instead of in one big jump, it might be running really fine.

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What are your views on clowns? Keep them away from children until you know whether the kids think they are funny or are creeped out/frightened by them. It is astonishing how many children hate clowns, and adults have to be sensitive to the possibility.

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My 8 year old daughter is a real girly girl. My wife lets her dress real girly. She even lets her wear make up and high heels. I noticed that she is the only girl in her class that is doing that. Is it appropriate for a girl that young? There's a difference between femininity and premature sexualization, and heels and makeup at 8 are premature sexualization. Put the clamp on it. The last thing a child needs is to lose her carefree childhood and rush into the angst-ridden teen years.

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Do you feel that you spend your life workin' for the man, and he's the one that gets all the sugar? It might be that he's takin' the sugar because he's not drinkin' the beer. Or living beyond his income, or living for the weekend.

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Is it correct to say ''Atom bomb'' or ''Atomic bomb''? In the English language, almost any word can become an adjective if you place it before a noun--especially if it is also after an article. Although "atomic" is always an adjective, "atom" can become an adjective in the phrase "the atom bomb" or "an atom bomb." Normally it is not an adjective--you would never speak about the atom weight of uranium, or...

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What are the Steps the U.S. government took to get the nation ready for World War I and how were civial liberties affected? Are you kidding? Before World War I the President was a Democrat. When has any Democrat ever gotten the country prepared for an obviously upcoming war? Before World War I and even after it our military was no stronger than Portugal's or Rumania's. Which is why the German Kaiser was confident we would never get into the war. Which is why he felt confident that going to war...

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How can sandstone be transformed into sediment without becoming metamorphic or igneous rock first? You've got everything backwards. Sediment becomes sandstone, but heat and pressure can transform it into a metamorphic rock. It will never become igneous. Time to go back and reread your textbook.

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I am 39 and I have no credit history whatsoever. How do I establish a credit rating? Take your bank statement to a few large stores that offer their own credit cards and say you want to open a charge account, and why. They'll be happy to have a customer like you, especially if you sometimes make only the minimum payment so that they get some interest out of you.

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Im 15,and i had unprotected sex(no BC either).My last period was jul.26(my cycle is every 34 days but kinda irregular)we had sex on aug.9&13 and he "came" inside me both times.are my chances of being pregnant low or high?does my age affect my chances? There is an 80 per cent chance you will be expecting a baby within twelve months. Are you ready for that? Do you even know what a baby IS? A baby is a dolly that you have to play with whether you want to or not--all day and much of the night. My daughter said she didn't sleep AT ALL--only dozed--until my wife came to help with her firstborn.

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I can't imagine my girlfriend cheating on me. If ever she would, I would go completely insane!!! I feel I would be dangerous to myself if it actually would happen... It never happened to me and I'm still paranoid. How should I deal with this? You have a serious personality disorder and need to talk to a psychologist or a pastor who specializes in counseling before you do something horrible and criminal. I'm glad you asked outsiders for their opinion, but this is not something Answerbag can help you with and not something you can take care of yourself. Many of these men you read about in the news after they've...

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The word totem comes from the greek word....meaning.... Totem is not a Greek word.

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How do you say goodbye? Ciao, adios, hasta la vista, arrividerci, au revoir, and if the person would understand it, auf Wiedersehen or do svidannya.

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What were the causes of World war 2 in the pacific?(between the U.S and Japan) A new, nationalistic form of the traditional Japanese religion of Shintoism gave religious sanction to the idea that the Japanese were a master race that was entitled to take other peoples' property, lives and freedom. War in the Pacific had one and ONLY one cause--naked Japanese aggression, the all-too-human desire to steal other peoples' property and tell them how to live. History...

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Das Antworteutel est sehr gut, korrekt? Ihre Grammatik ist schwach.

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What is pure alcohol..i say it is ethyl alcohol.am i right Pure alcohol is anhydrous alcohol, but as the first responder said there are numerous chemicals that can be described as pure alcohol. Usually it means the drinkable stuff but it can be methyl alcohol (which will burn your eyes out) or ethylene glycol, a.k.a. antifreeze. You would NOT want to drink pure ethyl alcohol, any more than you would want to drink boiling water.

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At what rate will you sell a litre of petrol if you are given an oil well which will never become empty? At the market price, of course. If you sell below that, you encourage waste and pollution. If you sell at the market price, you encourage conservation and the development of alternate energy sources.

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My sister is physically and emotionally abusing her 12 year old daughter. Welfare don't seem to be doing much as my whole family has called them repeatedly. Her ex now wants custody of her and doesn't know how to go about it. What are his rights? If nothing else works, go to the newspapers.

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What can i do to make my college presentation stand out from everyones elses? Use props.

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I sat on the same sofa as a guy and now i'm late for my period, i think i'm pregnant, i also found a round red pill with an s on it and took it because i though it would help what should i do? The pill is a smart pill, and you ought to take it.

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What's a good way to get rid of pimples without buying any products? For what it's worth, I moved to the Soviet Union just after it collapsed. Every young person without exception had clear and perfect skin. Then the diet Westernized and you see acne all over the place.

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How hi is the golden gate bridge I just read the almost unbelievable fact that on very hot days the steel expands and the roadway is 20 feet closer to the water than on very cold days, when the cables shrink.

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Have you ever gone to columbus,OH? Lived there for nine years. Liked it a lot. Go back annually.

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Why do people assume that if you don't follow their advice, that you aren't listening to them??? I am listening and I've taken some of the advice, but not all. I don't completely agree, but I did listen! I give LOTS of advice. People even ask for it. Then they never take it, but talking to me helps them decide what to do.

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How do you keep your hardwood floor looking like new especially in a high traffic area? Interesting question because you get different answers in different parts of the world. I'm used to American wood floors which you are supposed to keep water away from, but live in Ukraine. One day I looked down at the wood floor and realized that my failure to wash it every day had ruined it--all the boards had dried up and shrunk, leaving large cracks between them. I'm washing it...

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Is environmentalism a replacement for religion? This is in answer to Brand Y's comment. There is a bug in the Answerbag program that won't allow me to post it as a reply to his comment. Someone can be environmentally conscious without making it his religion. When my sister-in-law gave me a booklet entitled "100 Ways to Save the Earth" I was already doing 95 of them. But for some environmentalists, environmentalism...

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Where did the saying blondes are dumb brunettes are stupid come from? Do you know anyone who fits the stereotype? The idea is not that blondes are dumb, but that BOTTLE blondes spend so much time on the outside of their heads that they don't bother expending effort on the inside. A second reason why this is still a popular form of ethnic jokes is that you are born the ethnicity you are, but one chooses to be a bottle blonde.

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Did you hear about the Pregnant man? He used to be a She. and kept the female organs. So basically he is not a Man. Is it a hoax? They are now saying the neighbors said they didnt look pregnant a week ago. And they dont want to be interviewed There are males and females who have surgery to change their reproductive systems, but every one of the 20 trillions cells in their bodies (except red blood cells and platelets) identifies them as male or female.

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Who is your patron saint? Salieri. He supposedly said he's the patron saint of mediocrity, and I'm mediocre in enough specialties to add up to a specialty.

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Do you play poker? All luck or are skills a major factor? It can be demonstrated mathematically that all players in the long run get as many good cards as all other players. Therefore it is skill, not luck, that matters.

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Why are we all not driving electric cars or some alternative to the madness that is the oil industry? Because at this point the energy and materials necessary to build, fuel, and dispose of the internal combustion engine are cheaper than the energy and materials necessary to build, fuel, and dispose of the electric car. Lots of very smart people are trying to change that, but until they do, gas and diesel are the way to go. I personally use only mass transit 10-11 months a year.

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Whats the strangest smell that you like? The exhaust from cars without catalytic converters.

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Why do "the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer"? In the United States that is not true. The rich do get richer, but the poor have moved up to where the middle class was a couple generations ago in terms of their possessions.

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Based on Luke 8:33 , explain why demons need to enter into the swine. What are the reasons for their obsession to possess humans? Their ambition in life was to make some deviled ham.

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What is your opinion on the holocaust? Besides being horrendously evil, it was the stupidest thing the Nazis ever did. They not only exterminated their most productive citizens, they also gave the Jews their homeland back again, which the Jews hadn't been able to get for themselves in 1900 years. In America we just leave the Jews alone, except for the few that convert to Christianity, and in America the Jews are...

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What alcoholic drink do you hate the most? Pernod. One bottle of that hog wallow can break up any wackatooli party ever imagined.

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Does the early bird really get the worm? No, but he can pick up all the beer bottles and get the deposit back.

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What's a good shaped pasta to use in a pasta salad? What other ingredients are good to use? I was thinking sliced cherry or grape tomatoes, sliced black olives, cubed salami, a cubed cheese like Swiss or Provelone, and blanched broccoli florets. Why not try those tricolored spirals?

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There are a few thousand brave souls putting their lives on the line every day in the name of freedom, democracy and justice every single day. Can I get a Hoo...rrrah! for the United States Marines? My wife is currently serving as full-time unpaid babysitter for a Marine's wife & child while he's fighting in Iraq. I'm not mentioning this to draw attention to us but just to give an idea to someone else out there--you can maybe do more than cheer.

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Do you floss every day like the dentist tells you to? I didn't until I saw a sign in the dentist's office that said "To save time, only floss the teeth you want to keep!" That was five years ago and I probably haven't missed two days since.

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Is French harder to learn than Spanish? Spanish pronunciation and basic grammar is easier. One of the biggest difficulties with French is that if a word looks very similar to something in English, it may mean something radically different. That doesn't happen often in Spanish. You will be speaking understandable Spanish faster than French, and have more chance to practice. Also, Spanish is more economically important to...

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Imagine that there's this book that you've read multiple times, so you know the story pretty well. Do you think that reading a copy of this book in a foreign language which you kind of understand will help teach you this language? Of course it will. In fact, one of the best books you can use to study any foreign language is the Bible in that language. Reading it has helped me teach myself German, Russian, and Ukrainian, and I use it to teach Ukrainians and Russians English and other languages.

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How do you train your brain to stop planning and live in present? Say five times a day "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy." (Napoleon Bonaparte.) Realize "No five-year plan survived contact with the Soviet people." (Unknown Ukrainian.) Extrapolate to "No plan survives contact with reality," and practice reacting to the unexpected instead of trying to predict the unpredictable.

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What is the easiest food to grow and produce enough to feed a family? How do you grow it? Paracel, this is supposed to be a reply to your answer to my comment but AB isn't posting my replies: What you do with the tires is that after the spuds have had a while to start developing, you put a used tire around the plant and fill it with dead leaves. Then a month or so later you do it again. The Mother Earth News had an article on this over 20 years ago and it asserted that you...

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Can a politician who wants to appoint judges who support creationism in schools, like Ron Paul, be considered Libertarian? I tried to post this as an answer to your comment, but AB's incompetent staff can't design a system that allows it--You're totally wrong. Intelligent design just proves beyond doubt that time multiplied by chance is inadequate to explain fabulously complex cellulary machinery, and leaves it up to the student to follow up if he's interested on who might have designed it,...

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What is the easiest food to grow and produce enough to feed a family? How do you grow it? Some interesting and perhaps applicable facts: Cabbage produces more tonnage of crop per acre than anything. However, it is low in calories and doesn't keep all year. Rice produces more calories per acre than anything, but also requires more labor input than anything. Corn produces more calories with less labor than almost anything. Potatoes produce a lot of food per acre...

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Can a politician who wants to appoint judges who support creationism in schools, like Ron Paul, be considered Libertarian? Excusez-moi, but practically no politician wants creationism taught in public schools--only intelligent design, or the problems with the theory of evolution.

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If Jesus has immediate brothers, before He died why did He entrust the care of his mother to John? This is one of the many reasons why many Christians believe that the brothers of Jesus were actually half-brothers, older sons of Joseph but not of Mary, and that Mary remained in fact the Blessed Virgin throughout her life. If it wasn't so late and I wasn't so tired, I'd look up for you a dozen places in the Bible where the word "brother" includes both full and...

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Have you ever typed a comment, then clicked on "post comment" but the comment doesn't appear? Lots. So many people have, in fact, that the AB staff just automatically forwards all the letter bombs they get from angry subscribers directly to Iran, which turns them into IEDs.

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Of all the countries you have visited, which had the best and worst food? The food in Peru was so good I didn't even mind the ten pounds I gained there--and the reason we don't get coffee like theirs in the United States is that they export it all directly to heaven.

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What causes human combustion? As I recall, it's often a combination of obesity, heavy drinking and passing out with a cigarette going. If you drink fast enough, the alcohol overwhelms your hindbrain's ability to direct breathing and you die in your easy chair. If you don't put your cigarette in the ashtray and it burns down, it may cause body fat to melt and get wicked up into the cigarette where it burns...

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Why is religion a touchy subject? A big reason is that, within Christianity at least, people don't realize that they are using different rules of interpretation while quoting Scripture. The alcoholic who quotes the Bible, "Be not drunk with wine" and says "I never drink wine!" is interpreting as well as quoting--but he doesn't realize he's doing that. And since people rarely even talk about...

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Be creative. If you were homeless and had to stand on a street corner with a cardboard sign, what would you write? I would be picking up trash and have the sign on my back: "Am Working For Food. Please Help."

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An infinite number of monkeys hitting out at an infinite number of keyboards will eventually type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Seeings as the monkeys and keyboards are infinite, surely the complete works would be typed out immediately? When this experiment was actually tried, the monkeys defecated on the keyboards. This thought-experiment is intended to replace God as First Cause with chance. But stop and think for a moment: it requires the presence of computer keyboards, computers, electricity and software. And it requires monkeys, not hedgehogs or shipworms. (In an older form it required typewriters and paper....

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Do you sing in public places? Only if I've got the best voice in the room. Usually there is someone better, and I always defer to him or her.

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Have you ever wondered how it would feel to see jesus die on the cross and rise again 3 days later? Technical detail, it wasn't three days later, it was "the third day." Lots of cultures count time differently than we do--the Chinese add a year to your age because of the time you spent in the womb--and as the book of Esther shows, "the third day" is what we would call "the second day."

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When eye glasses were first invented how was it possible for them to know how to make the lenses to give the gift of sight to people, and get the correct strength of lenses. It started out with trial and error, and the science of optics developed in tandem with the practice of prescribing eyeglasses. By now the science of optics has been perfected, but eyeglasses continue to improve on the basis of it.

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Why did Jesus die on a cross? Why not a rock? Or a pike? The Romans had various punishments for those it considered criminals, such as death in the galleys from overwork and starvation, and beheading. Crucifixion was one of the very worst and added to the long-lasting and extreme pain was the disgrace factor. Crucifixion was the most shameful form of death, most often used for slaves and rebels. But God had a hand in this. Whatever else you...

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What is the friendliest city you have ever been in? Fayetteville, Arkansas--which is why I was so shocked to read in the New York Times about a bullying scandal there. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/us/24land.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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What is the most fashionable forename in your school, college, town, city, (etc)? And is it for a boy or a girl? I live in Ukraine and it seems like every third female under 35 is named Natalya. (Natasha is short for Natalya so that's included.)

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Whats the tastiest fish in the sea? Red salmon caviar, on fresh white bread with lots of butter.

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Is asking stupid questions going to get me stupid answers or will some people see past the seeming stupid phrasing to give good answers? I frequently take the opportunity to give deep and thoughtful answers to stupid questions. For example, the naive question "Why don't we just forgive all the debts of these poor African nations?" The deep and thoughtful answer is that in the real world we live in, the kleptocrats who rule them would just turn around and borrow right back up to their countries' lines of...

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Lola is sick on the couch right now, considering making a hot cup of tea. What is your favorite kind hot tea? Is it a good alternative as a cold tea too? Depends on what you're sick WITH. For stomach and/or depression, St. John's Wort is effective and tastes very good.

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My husband and i argue about one thing only. our dog. when she goes potty in the house (because she isnt fully trained) he slaps her and forces her onto the patio in the cold until i beg for her to be allowed back in. i'll add more to this question below. I'd add that, as a dog psychology book might tell you, this is not the way a female dog says "no" to a puppy. She takes it by the skin of the neck, shakes it and growls. So to say no to a dog, you take it by the skin of the neck, shake it a little and growl "No!" I did that and our dog learned rapidly and well. She was a wonderful dog. If your husband is at all...

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Humans can't digest corn, so if you eat it and then crap it out ....can you wash it and eat it twice? Something I remember reading in the Digest over 40 years ago was what constituted real poverty--children in Iran picking undigested oats out of horse droppings. Presumably to be recycled for the horses; the Digest didn't say. Rabbits also produce two kinds of pellets, feces and a second type that is predigested and has to be reconsumed. That being said, nobody's stopping you.

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Will a huge magnet being run along a hard drive really wipe clean? Don't risk it, and don't count on it.

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Have you met a person with a photographic memory,? or are you a person with a photographic memory and if yes what are the limits of what you can or cannott remember? "Photographic" or eidetic memory isn't really photographic. They don't remember the pixels on a page, just the letters and a pretty good mental image of the illustrations. But the photographic memory isn't all it's cracked up to be, because a person who has it will in almost all cases do a "data dump" periodically to make room in his memory for more...

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Two identical 7-kg bowling balls roll toward each other. The one on the left is moving at +4 m/s while the one on the right is moving at −4 m/s. What is the velocity of each ball after they collide elastically? I'd guess that each will transmit its velocity to the other, with a little loss due to friction.

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Is it truth most people ignore most poetrybecause most poetry ignore most poeple Most people ignore poetry unless it's set to music.

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Is there a difference between killing and murder? Murder is immoral killing. Some killing is totally moral, for example when a SWAT team takes out the perp in a hostage crisis by shooting him dead before he can kill anyone (else). Some killing is totally immoral, for example when a terrorist blows up himself and as many innocent civilians as he can kill.

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I recently told a girl how amazing I think she is. Now she can barely stand to look at me. She says that she doesn't need me to tell her how great she is, that she needs to find that out on her own. I feel like an idiot. What did I do wrong? Everybody else is dumping on the girl here, and maybe they're right, but that may not be helpful to you, especially if it happens again with other girls. Let's consider other possibilities: In the first place, she may have heard the same thing five times today already. In the second place, you may not know how to give compliments suavely yet. Or you may have done it too soon,...

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What is your motto in life? You're never too old to start over. The difference between a winner and a loser is that a winner gets up one more time than he falls and a loser gets up one time less.

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What is your motto in life? Newton's Third Law applies to human relations, not just matter in motion. Expect an equal and opposite reaction for everthing you do. Try to pre-calculate those equal and opposite reactions and do the minimum necessary action in any situation so as to minimize the reactions of others.

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Could one be sued by oneself? I seem to recall reading of a case where a man's car slipped out of gear and rolled into his other car, or something like that, and the only way the insurance company would pay for the damage was that he filed suit against himself. Probably a mistake in the insurance policy which has since been fixed.

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Will muscle building stunt your growth? any good tips on how to get a ripped six pack? I'm not sure everybody can get a six pack. My son-in-law is in superb physical shape, karate black belt and instructor, lost 25 pounds in boot camp and packs 150 pounds of gear in Iraq--but he's not six packed.

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Do you ever pump gas and then just drive away without paying? No, but I bailed out a "bro" at two AM when HE did. It ruined his whole day. Matter of fact, it ruined his whole month... maybe his whole year. I forget whether that got him a felony conviction or not. If it did, it means he'll never be able to vote or own a gun again in his life.

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I have developed a process for punishment that I think works well, what do you think? Child requires punishment I allow them to reach into a hat and whatever is written down is their punishment. Grounding, No TV or video games, laundry, cleaning bathroom. First you have to decide what is punishable. Dr. James Dobson urges, and I think rightly so, that you don't punish for irresponsibility and think twice about doing it for giving in to temptation, but that you do punish for defying your authority. One good thing about the hat is that it makes it unpredictable so they can't calculate in advance whether the costs will be less than the...

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I faint all the time, and the doctors can't find anything wrong with me. I'm a sixteen year old girl and my school is threatening to kick me out because it's too dangerous with the risk of hitting my head, etc. Where do I go, what can I do? Help. You probably won't like this answer, but if you really really want to stay in school, you could suggest to them letting you wear a football helmet. I worked at a big home for the handicapped and some of the residents did that.

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Mr. Kangaroo? Soupy Sales? The Three Stooges? No wonder we're screwed up. Role models? And tv is okay for children! Right! Cowboy Bob, Mr. Green Genes...ever wonder how we got a B movie actor and a Tricky Dicky for president? How about TV? I have no love for TV or Hollywood, but the "B movie actor" was one of the three or four greatest Presidents we've ever had and one of the dozen greatest leaders in world history. He took us from Carter's stagflation and 20 point misery index to creating more wealth than there was in West Germany, and faced down the Soviet Union which had thirty thousand nuclear warheads...

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Why veins are visible not arteries? They're closer to the skin surface. The body is so designed because a cut vein can fairly easily be stopped from bleeding. But a cut artery is bleeding under high pressure and it's very serious.

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Do you buy pens for home use, or use extras from the office? I keep my eyes open when I'm walking around and haven't had to buy a pen for thirty years! People drop them on the sidewalk and in parking lots. Also when one stops functioning, the first thing I do is see if a match flame (two seconds only) will revive it. Often it will. I keep the parts from broken pens and the last time I went through the box made a dozen complete pens from...

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Is there really any difference between good and evil, or is it all just subjective in the greater scheme of things? Let me rephrase your question: "Is there really any difference between (a) raising a family with love and (2)sadistic cruelty to small children, or is it all just subjective in the greater scheme of things?" Yes, there is a difference between good and evil!

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Do you believe that Americans should not be allowed to put up Christmas Trees because we have let so many other cultures in that we are now disrespecting them by celebrating our American Holidays? 75% of Americans identify themselves as Christians. This is our culture and we have the right to practice and display it. We don't go to other countries and expect them not to practice their religion because of us, and minorities in America shouldn't come to the United States and expect a three-fourths majority to be dictated to by minorities from the grievance industry. ...

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What is racism? What the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been preaching to the Barack Obama family for the last twenty years.

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I'm a 16 year old girl who is being verbally, emotionally, mentally, and sometimes physically abused by my mom. My parents have joint physical and legal custody of me. My mom won't let me move in with my dad. What will happen if i just stay at my dads? It's not that simple, but it can happen. Talk to your father about calling Child Protective Services. They're in the phone book and they will probably help you.

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Is environmentalism a replacement for religion? Yes. It's got all the same factors as religion, including a paradise myth, a fall into sin, tempters and evil spirits, commandments, indulgences, and the Savior, Al Gore, who will provide everlasting life (at least for the race) in a parklike environment where everyone can become a nudist (yech). And, like religion, it has many non-rational beliefs that are impervious to facts and logic....

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If my friends think that the guy that I like is bad for me but I think he isnt what should I do? I really like this guy but he is such a jerk. Your problem is not that you like him. Your problem is that you don't like YOURSELF. If you valued yourself as highly as you ought to, you wouldn't give someone you recognize as a jerk the time of day. Just tell yourself this, ten times a day: "That guy and his twin brother put together wouldn't be worth one of my tears." Then by the time they start falling...

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What is "the house of the rising sun"? Someone said it was a place called the Absinthe Bar in old New Orleans, now defunct because it's illegal to mix absinthe (an alkaloid, that is, a narcotic) with liquor to make double-addicting vermouth. I'm too lazy and it's too late for me to check this out. Some people say this is all a myth and others say that there's no drunkard like an absinthe drunkard. Maybe it...

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Who was Galactea? whats her story? I think you mean Galatea. She was a statue who was so beautiful the sculptor, Pygmalion, prayed to the gods to make her live. She was the inspiration for Shaw's play Pygmalion, which was the inspiration for the musical My Fair Lady.

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How do you, personally pronounce the word "nuclear" Just like President Bush does when he's not pretending to be dumb--"noo clee are." Michael Medved was an ear witness of this in a private meeting with the President. Yeah, I know, fifty liberals will flame me for this because I don't see how stupid Bush is. You guys keep thinking he's stupid, and he'll keep beating you. It's his strategery. That...

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How do you, personally pronounce the word "nuclear" Properly.

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If your life was a cocktail which one would it be? I said to the bartender "Make me a zombie" and he said "Mother nature already beat me to it!"

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IS abortion right if the mother's life is threatened? This is a hypothetical question since virtually the only time it occurs is during a tubal pregnancy. However, tubal pregnancy will kill BOTH the mother AND the fetus, so the question is simply "Is it better to lose one life, or two?" Eventually it should become possible to transplant tubal pregnancies and then such a question will be almost meaningless.

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Is it true that true peaceful Christians do not argue, fight or bash anyone? Do you believe in being loving,kind, peaceful and considerate to others? Everywhere St. Paul went, they had a riot. He didn't fight or bash, but he did present arguments.

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What is the highest prime number found so far? A minute with Google--which is where you should ask this type of question--found one from 2006, which is probably already obsolete since a new one turns up every year or so: http://primes.utm.edu/ It has 9.8 million digits. That, alas, would overstuff the Answerbag; and it is also a number that is far beyond having any meaning in the physical universe since there is nothing in the...

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The UPS man hit my 25 pound beagle in the head with his brown tablet that they write on. He claims that the dog was attacking him(which he wasn't). Besides just making a complaint what can I do? Tie your beagle up. Delivery people have to deal with dogs many times a day and are justifiably very cautious and even afraid of them. If your dog HAD bitten him, I can't even guess how many thousands of dollars you'd lose... just for your lawyer. Tie your dog up and be glad he didn't use Mace, which is what I carry against unrestrained dogs.

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Would you like your grown children to be more involved in your life? All five of mine are involved through our family website. You can get your own passworded family website at family.com. I have no financial interest in that site, but it's sure great to hear from all my kids several times a week!

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My ex girlfriend took pictures of us having sex and gave me the disc as a gift. She is making my life miserable and tempting me to post the pics on line. Legal? Don't post them! It's a horrible revenge. If you ever have children they'll be ashamed of you all their lives, and if SHE ever has children, or a jealous possessive boyfriend, they may hunt you down and ...

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If you could have any alcoholic beverage right now, what would you choose? I said to the bartender, "Make me a zombie," but he said "Mother Nature beat me to it."

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I notice my frind cleans her counter tops with Dawn and water, then she wipes it dry and shiny. She does not rinse. She does rinse her eating utensils but, are her counter tops and appliances clean? Yes. The only residue that might be left behind is the occasional detergent, dye, or surfactant molecule, which don't support bacterial growth.

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Is cutting a teenage girl's hair short appropriate punishment under any circumstance (in this case for poor grades, lying anf not following through on promises)? By the teen years, your child is close enough to legal adulthood that you should not be touching her without her permission. What you would be doing in this case would be breaking the spirit without changing the will. Dr. James Dobson persuasively says we should do exactly the opposite--shape the will without breaking the spirit. I raised five children following his philosophy and they all...

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What is the point of circumcision? It cuts the chance of being infected with AIDS, if one should be exposed to it, by over 60%. Three African governments have so found and are doing everything they can think of to encourage male circumcision. However, it shouldn't be done to newborns; it should be done after a week, by which time the clotting mechanism is developed but sensitivity to pain isn't as high as it will be...

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What do wild rabbits eat in the winter. Well, one attacked Jimmy Carter, but he probably smelled like peanuts.

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What word makes you proud of your vocabulary? Doctrinaire. It explains ideologues who can't be convinced by facts, logic, history, experience, or experiment. For example some people want price controls on gasoline even though price controls have been tried again and again and have just caused shortages followed by higher prices. For another example, the doctrinaire liberal's answer to any problem is to raise taxes and increase...

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Do you agree with me that technology is so rapidly outpacing our philosophy, ethics etc that we should declare a 100 year moratorium (punishable by death) on all science to allow the humanities - and Humanity - to catch up? How about a 100-year moratorium on stupid questions?

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If a man fell from a building, and his weight was 78kg, how fast did he fall, from the 107m building? I'm sorry, Al Gore is much more than 78 kg, but you could ask him to demonstrate anyway!

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If you're Christian, and you're in the army and you kill someone. Will you go to hell? Of course not. Roman soldiers asked John the Baptist what they should do to show their repentance. He said to be content with their wages--in other words, stay in the army--and just not extort money from people. Jesus healed the servant of a Roman top sergeant and said that the Roman's faith was greater than any Israelite's. Paul called the swordbearers of the Roman army...

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I have a 2 yr old shepard I am considering breeding. How often will she go in heat? And how can you tell if she has been bred? Ive found a male shepard to breed her with, but this is kinda new. Help. The last thing America needs is more dogs. Do you know how many millions of dogs are put down every year? If you are not a professional dog breeder get her spayed! If every dog in the world besides one pregnant bitch dropped dead tomorrow, the dogs could still outnumber the people again in twelve years! Stop the pooch population problem!

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Hey people just want to no does race really matter when it comes to picking a president or is it just not that important let me no what you think!!!!!! Like most white Americans, I would be delighted to have a black president. Just not Obama, because he is as far left as you can get without being Castro, and he has gone to a church with a rabidly honkey-hating America-cursing pastor for twenty years, got married there, baptized his kids there, traveled with the pastor, put him on his election committee... you should hear some of his sermons,...

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What’s the difference between the three Geometries – Euclid’s, Lobachevski’s, and Riemann’s? Euclid postulated only one parallel to a line passing through a given point. His universe is the common-sense one we think we live in. Riemann postulated no parallels to a line passing through a given point. His universe is a closed curve, kind of spherical, and it seems to work better for astronomers and other scientists when studying the universe. Lobaschevski postulated many...

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Is it possible to Smell sound? I know it sounds really random but do you think it's possible? Some people have cross-sensory experiences. Whenever I drink tonic water I have the sensation of blackness.

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I feel so depressed and my grades are at an all time low. I'm afraid I just won't get into university this year and I'll have to go back another year. Any advice? What's your hurry? Get out before you burn out. Travel. Work. Do both--move around and try different types of job so as to meet people. Get a job on a cruise ship so you can get out of the college kindergarten for a year. You'll find out what you want to do with the rest of your life, and maybe find out that instead of investing four more years and $100,000 you'd do better,...

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Arn't the teachings christ gave to the american natives exactly the same teachings he gave everybody else? if thats the case then how did the book of mormon come around? The teachings of the Book of Mormon are radically different from those of historic Christianity. It's not just a clarification, it's a difference. Now, Mormons are good people and good Americans and I hope Romney gets the vice presidential nomination. In fact he'd be a great President and I supported him over McCain. But you can't paper over the contradictions between...

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What are some simple one-person meals i can cook? Do they sell Minute Rice in boil-in-the-bag packets? If so, one of those and a bag of mixed vegetables could be done in the same pot and be done at the same time. You'd have a quick, low-fat, low-calorie, nutrient-dense vegetarian one-pot meal with absolutely no preparation or cooking skill necessary. Possibly with leftovers for the next day. Haven't been in America for a...

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If you could create an animal by combining 2 other animals, what woulf it be and what would you call it? Russian scientists have grafted the neck of a giraffe onto the body of a Holstein cow so it can graze in Ukraine and they can milk it in Russia.

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I have heard religionists say that Jesus had a sense of humor. I contend He did not considering the mission of His life. What are your thoughts about these statements? Just consider a couple of incidents. He walks up to this guy who's been lying on a mat near Bethesda Pool for 38 years hoping for a miracle and says "Do you want to get well?" The man must have been utterly dumbfounded. Or calling Peter "Rock." Peter was born Simon bar Jonah and Jesus renamed him Peter, which means Rock. Normally people think of a rock as...

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Is it time to start bringing back the horse and buggy as the favored mode of transportation? OK I just saw gas for $3.45 a gallon and Oil is trading on the stock exchange for $108.00 a barrel today. Pretty crazy huh? The problem is not that gas is going up, but that the dollar is going down. Gasoline is still cheaper than any other form of energy--if you think differently, try running a vehicle on biodiesel, electricity, or whatever, and calculate your costs per mile and per year. People who buy gas in euros, yen and gold aren't screaming bloody murder about gas prices. The problem isn't...

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If you could go back to High School - What would you do differently? For me, high school was a Close Encounter of the Nerd Kind. I would have waited until the teacher called on me instead of raising my hand so much. And changed my course schedule a bit.

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What happens if a person doesn't eat at all? what are the effects and which organs dye first? One of the most interesting cases of starvation was the world's largest man. The last time he was weighed he was 1069 pounds. When a friend of his, someone over 700 pounds, died of heart failure, he turned his face to the wall and refused to eat anything. He died at somewhere above 700 pounds... not of starvation, but because of electrolyte imbalance. Every time he emptied his bladder...

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What is the chemical formula for wheat? Wheat is a structure containing many separate substances, each with their own chemical formula, and a lot of cells, which are far too large and complex to have chemical formulas.

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Is it advisable to put eyeglasses in a dishwasher to clean them? No, but haven't you got an old pair to experiment with? Be interesting to see what comes out. I'd predict that the lenses would turn white, the plastic would discolor, and the screws would rust. Also be sure to fasten it down so it doesn't make the arm jam, or get caught in the drain.

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Is music infinite or will there come a time when it has all been done? We considered this question in college. The math says that the possible combinations of notes, timing, instrumentation, instrumentation, style and so forth are so close to infinite that for all practical purposes we'll never run out of new songs.

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Are you a city dweller or a country bumpkin? Uh, I used to be a city slicker who laughed at hicks and hayseeds, but then moved out to North Dakota and lived surrounded by them. Got news for you, cousin, there are NO DUMB FARMERS. The last dumb farmer lost his farm thirty or forty years ago. Farmers have to understand lots about business, chemistry, botany, zoology, exchange rates, interest rates, diesel, gasoline and electrical...

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Did god create satan? God created an angel whose name we don't know for sure but which may be Lucifer. This angel rebelled and therefore decided to become Satan (a Hebrew word meaning "adversary") and the devil (a Greek word meaning the accuser or slanderer).

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Looking back in history which fashion style to you like the best? Edwardian jackets--once saw a photo of Smashing Pumpkins in them--three-cornered colonial hats, and the all-time ultimate in cool I ever saw personally was this dude down town in Chicago in a full-length Confederate coat with about three dozen pairs of buttons. To wear, however--leisure suits, because I hate buttoning my top button for a tie.

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Is anyone else still thinking it's the Year 2007? I was filling out some papers today and i put 2007. Still not used to it being 2008! lol I haven't made that mistake once this year, and it's because I now write dates the way computers sort them: 2008/04/15 is when you file your taxes, for example. This seems to me to be the only possible compromise between the American system of writing 4/15 and the European system of writing 15/4. Neither side will give up theirs unless something that's clearly superior...

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What do you think should be the age of consent: the age at which a person is considered capable of giving conformed consent to behaviors regulated by law, including sexual relations. The vast majority of women aren't fully developed and ready for pregnancy until they are 18. Risking pregnancy before her pelvic bone is wide enough for a baby's head is not good for a woman and not good for her baby. And anyone who thinks "They can all use contraception" hasn't been reading Answerbag and the number of mindless minors who ask "Could I be pregnant...

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How many languages do you speak? And which language would you most like to learn? Why? Fluently? German, Ukrainian and Russian. German wasn't too hard. Ukrainian and Russian were lots harder because they aren't on the coast of Europe. Languages from the coast of Europe, except for Finnish, are all fairly closely related to English so they aren't that hard to learn. Languages from the interior of Europe are much harder. A simple practical example of the...

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In Islam, why can't women have four husbands? Because women are smart enough not to want four mothers-in-law. Men aren't.

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Anyone have any money saving tips they would like to share? Consumer Reports once said that the sale of used items (cars, clothing, appliances and so forth) are a superhighway of wealth-transfer from the rich to the poor. Well, you don't have to be poor to go to a thrift store! I have gotten some of the most incredible bargains there--like a three-piece suit in my favorite that didn't even need tailoring, all for ten bucks!

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If you were the parents of this kid would you beat him senseless or have him commited? This really happened here & the kid now faces felony charges for being AN IDIOT. Please read my answer, I think I'd want to hurt my kid if she did this Beating 14-year-olds senseless is child abuse and is not among the acceptable severe consequences for this felony. The kid needs to be punished, but YOU need to be watched by Child Protection authorities. 14 is way too old for corporal punishment by a parent to be effective, anyway.

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In a Chinese coal mine collapse, miners ate coal to survive while digging their way out. What are some short-, mid-, and long-term after-effects of eating coal? Eventual carbon emissions. Probably didn't do them any good, but it gave their gastric juices something to work on.

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If I could trap a photon in a box, what would happen to it? If the box was made of absolutely perfect mirrors, it would keep reflecting back and forth forever at the speed of light. If it was made of anything else, it would be absorbed and re-emitted in any direction, most probably not into the box, and sooner or later it would be outside the box.

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Could we really say we have won the war or do we wait until all the troops come home? Uh, we've still got troops in Germany and Japan, and we won THOSE wars.

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What does the H stand for in Jesus H. Christ? This is a little complex. Fortunately one of my majors was in Greek. In many churches the inscription IHC is part of church art. These happen to be an abbreviation of the name Jesus, which is spelled IHSYS in Greek capital letters. In small letters it is spelled Iesus and the "Ie" is pronounced "Yay" and the last three letters are pronounced "Soos" with a...

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How might one go about performing delicate brain surgery using only an old digital watch, a hard-drive filled to the brim with assorted pornography, a rusty spoon, three dated issues of Women's Weekly, an elderly Jewish man and half a bottle of PepsiBlue? First you find Ahmedinejad, then do your best. Anything would be an improvement.

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I have a boss that has truly BAD breath, and you kinda hinted to them but they just did'nt get it . What would one do next? Don't want to be mean, but she need's Help. I talked to someone like that and it turned out he had pyorrhea and couldn't do a thing about it. Might not be a good thing for you to do, if you want to keep your job.

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For you superstitious types: What does an empty fortune cookie mean (i.e. no fortune, no little piece of paper in it)? No tickee, no washee!

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Do you use a water filter? If so, what kind? I live where the water is super hard, and to keep all that calcium out of my kidneys, first I boil it and pour it into a thermos. Most of the lime settles to the bottom while it cools. When it's cool I pour it into a big three gallon Katadyn filter, keeping back the lime. Then, to be absolutely safe, I throw out the water and drink beer.

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How long do you leve the tv on for Don't even own one. Rots the mind.

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Why do kids that do drugs ruin thier lives and face prision, and "stars" that do drugs, go for a quick holiday in rehab and win five Grammys? Uh, the average rock star dies at I think forty, five years younger than that in Britain. A short life but a merry one, if that's what you want.

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Why would you need your own gun? ... Only if you are a farmer, law enforcement officer, in the army/navy/aire force or professional bank robber ... Why els? The police can only catch the perp after the crime is over & done with. The only way to STOP the crime is if you have your own weapon.

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Are There Any Exercises For A Pinched Nerve In the lower back, a chiropractor told me that walking was the best exercise.

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Which religion is more repressive, christianity or moslem? And why? Probably the one that still uses floggings, burnings, bombings, stonings, hangings, beatings, and amputations. Of course, some commentators will go back to things that happened during the Inquisition... because they have to. Christianity reformed. Radical Islam hasn't.

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What is missing from hollywood movies today? Hollywood started going bad just about the time all the stores started selling yogurt. Now that we get our taste and culture from yogurt, there's none left for Hollywood.

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Why the Hell are we spending 10-12 Billion dollars a month to help The Iraq people? The woman have no rights and are beat by their husbands. A majority of them want us out. Why do we wish to support a Nation such as this? Because it's in our national-security interest. If it weren't, we wouldn't be doing in, which is why we aren't doing anything in Darfur or the Congo.

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For those who are against gay marriage here's my question, Why do you care? Other than religious reasons, WHY not let people just be happy & not degrade them? I've been alone 12 years & I'm happy to see any couple in love It's not about you, your feelings, or their feelings. It's about the fundamental structure of society and the definition of the family and about all the laws and customs that are based on that.

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Does anyone else think having the president visit disaster sites is foolish? Is he qualified to appraise the damage? Isn't work suspended for his tour? Aren't people who are qualified to help redeployed for his "Security"? Or am I alone in this? NOthing attracts national attention to the need better than a visit by the President. And as we saw after Katrina, it was private citizens, not the government, that did most of the helping. Our government is so big it can't even keep out of its own way... and run by bozos like School Bus Nagin and the recently defeated Democrat governor of Louisiana, whose name I can't even...

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Does anyone know why 'be' cannot be a verb according to Chomsky? Because Chomsky is sophomoric, which comes from a Greek word meaning educated fool. This doesn't mean he's always wrong; he has a lot to say about linguistics. Unfortunately he has somehow managed to take his reputation for linguistics over to get a hearing in the area of politics, where he's not always wrong, but then even a broken clock is right twice a day. There are...

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What if everything the bible and the koran teaches is truth? It's not possible. They contradict each other too often. Either Isaac was sacrificed, or Ishmael; either God is a Trinity, or He is not; either God has a Son, or He does not. For that matter, the Koran says that the Trinity is the Father, the Son and the Virgin Mary. The Bible says that the Trinity is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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If we are supposed to be complete and whole within ourselves, what do we need a partner for? Who said we are? In fact, Genesis 1 says that "in the image of God made He man; male and female made He them." In other words, first God made mankind, and then God divided mankind into two very different halves like a lock and key. (For just one difference, the average man has 60 pounds of muscle tissue, and the average woman 35.) Then God brought those two halves together to form...

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Do triangle sandwiches taste better than square ones? The main reason to cut triangles is that if the filling is messy your face won't get messy. PB&J especially.

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Without looking it up or trying it first, what would you guess will register on two scales stacked on top of each other and you on top of them? Since scales operate with springs, and since springs in other applications distribute weight the more you use, I would guess that the two would show approximately half your weight with the bottom one registering also half the weight of the upper scale. But if somebody really KNOWS, tell me, okay?

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Who takes out the trash in your family? And does that same person take in the trash cans as well? I take it out but my wife insists on replacing the trash-can liners. In other words, I'm the garbage man, and she's the bag lady.

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If every human was given a Warning Label to their names, what would yours read? Warning: Does not suffer fools gladly.

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Is it safe to eat chicken eggs that's from a guy I know that breed the chickens? Cause he sold the eggs to me at a very cheap price, and It's not USDA inspected, will it hurt my health to eat it? Can it carry disease? Almost all chicken eggs are completely sterile. That's why laboratories use them for cell cultures. Those eggs that are contaminated are usually contaminated because chicken droppings are stuck to the outside and the doofus who buys them doesn't wash them off before breaking the shells, thus contaminating the egg with salmonella bacteria. Bad eggs look funny or smell bad or...

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I'm going to learn a musical instrument, which should I learn and why? It depends. What kind of music do you like? A nice thing about piano is that you can always solo or accompany, and it can play almost any piece of music. Guitar is more portable and popular.

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What is the distance travelled for the earth to make one 365 day orbit? 292 million miles.

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Sargent Shriver's worthwhile war on poverty suffered because of the war in Vietnam. Do you think there still is a war on poverty and does it suffer because of the war in Iraq? After spending six trillion--TRILLION--dollars on it, everything that the War on Poverty was supposed to make better is actually worse. When are you idiots going to realize that your entire political philosophy is not only wrong, it's counterproductive? Six trillion dollars. That's six thousand semi-loads of hundred dollar bills. It's almost 200,000 tons of gold, even at...

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If you got the chance to do a master class with a top chef,which chef would you choose? Lucrezia Borgia.

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Who do you want to be president in 2008? Newt Gingrich, drafted out of an open convention.

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Has anybody ever been in an eating contest, and did you make yourself sick? The whole idea makes me sick, and actually watching people make pigs of themselves would make me vomit.

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I am going to Machu Picchu this Spring. Any tips, advice or anything that I absolutely have to do while I'm there? All I know is to arrive three days early due to the lack of O2! Other than that I'm a clean slate. This shouldn't be in the Central America category. Definitely south.

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I am going to Machu Picchu this Spring. Any tips, advice or anything that I absolutely have to do while I'm there? All I know is to arrive three days early due to the lack of O2! Other than that I'm a clean slate. We took two buses up. Unfortunately, the tour guides weren't intelligent enough to suggest that one bus have those who were unable to climb to the top, and the other have the younger people--so NOBODY got to climb to the top.

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What is your favorite cut when it comes to French Fries? Spiral, second choice waffle.

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Which is the greatest nation on earth? Sorry to answer a question with a question, but what's the nation that the most people on earth want to get into? If you know the answer to that, you know the answer to your question.

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Do you replace your toothbrush frequently? I rinse it with peroxide every month or so, replace it when the bristles start to curl. Especially after you've been sick you should replace or soak in peroxide. Rubbing alcohol or bleach would also work, but then you have to rinse thoroughly. (Peroxide just turns to water and oxygen.)

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If the Christian God created reality in 6 days, why can't he ease the pain of the few billion people who suffer more daily than many people can even comprehend? Twhupfold, the research is robust and undeniable: the death penalty saves innocent lives. If murderers are quickly put to death, there will be 18 fewer murders in the future; if it takes twelve or fifteen years, only three, but there is by now a convincing answer for every single argument the anti-death-penalty crowd has raised. If life in prison were worse than death, for example, those on...

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Why does water at the same temperature as air, feel colder than the air? Your skin is 99 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 Celsius, and the air is usually 70 Fahrenheit or 21 Celsius. Every time an air molecule strikes your skin, it picks up energy and bounces off at an average of 85 Fahrenheit or 29 Celsius. (This is really oversimplified, but useful.) Water at the same temperature is 1700 times as dense as air. This doesn't mean that 1700 times as many...

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Why does being sick make people tired? I know that fighting off illness uses energy, but I want to know how it works. Billions of cells that are ordinarily just at idle speed suddenly go into high gear. They extract lots of energy from your blood and dump fatigue poisons into it--exactly as your muscle cells do when you're climbing stairs. Meanwhile, most of your muscle cells are at idle speed as you sit or lie around.

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How would you use an adjective in a sentence? "Lazy students like FlashLove17 ask Answerbaggers to do their homework for them." Lazy is the only adjective in that sentence, and modifies (explains or changes the meaning of) the noun "students."

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What is your favorite Item thats mixed with Chocolate? Mine would be real peanut butter. Right--as in Reese's peanut butter cups.

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Exactly why is it forbidden in christianity to have more than one wife? Because "no man can serve two masters."

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Who is the author of "A tale of two cities"? Charles Dickens.

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What two songs have the same melody? O Solo Mio and "It's Now or Never."

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Is this true? Christians and Muslims are dumb because they base their belief on faith, which means, do not question, just follow what is written in the book. The church and mullahs has to say that because otherwise, the Bible or the Koran Christians base their beliefs on historical facts such as the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Lots of other things follow from that. Muslims, in most cases, are Muslims because their ancestors preferred Islam to death. And for that matter, even today the penalty for leaving Islam is death, in all four schools of Islamic jurisprudence. An Answerbag bug won't let me post this...

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Given the choice which would you prefer to believe, A. We exsist and one day perish and death is final, or B. We exist and the flesh will perish but the Spirit will live for eternity with God because of our faith in Jesus Christ? Neither, since Holy Scripture teaches the resurrection of the body, not just the persistence of the soul.

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Why are wasps so evil? On the contrary: Wasps are critically important in natural biocontrol. Almost every pest insect species has a wasp species that is a predator or parasite upon it. Parasitic wasps are also increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they have little impact on crops. Wasps also constitute an important part of the food chain. This is from Wikipedia.

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How large is the biggest book you have, and how small is the smallest? (Cover size, please specify titles) Largest, an eight-volume, 6,000 page "History of the Christian Church" by Philip Schaff. Smallest: Morals and Ethics of Bill and Hillary. One page, completely blank.

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Why do we peel our carrots? Since we cooked or blanched & froze virtually all our carrots, we didn't. I brought them in from the garden a laundry-basket full at a time and put them through a rinse cycle in the automatic washer. Didn't hurt the washer and no brush on earth could have gotten them as clean as the washing machine did. Works on other root vegetables, too.

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If you could give the internet or the World Wide Web a new name, what would it be? Instead of saying "www" I would say "sextuple-you." A triple doubles or three duets make a sextet, and three double-you's ought to make a sextuple-you. It would save five syllables and is easier to say.

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Why should God be seen as male if It may be unseen anyway? Assuming God exists, why is It male? Could this be a convenient mistranslation or editing of the "truth" in Scripture to facilitate patriarchy? Most but not all of God's characteristics are those we associate with a father; there are places where the best of female attributes are also attributed to Him. As to it being a convenient mistranslation, I'm a full-time professional Bible translator, proficient in eight languages, and it's not a mistranslation. This is not "my opinion." This is a fact.

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What do I have to do to get your attention? Make a donation through PayPal at my website, UkrainianBible.org.

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What is your opinion on telling your kids about Santa bringing gifts? My daugher is 5 and I never told her about him because I feel like i would by lying to her and i couldnt lower myself to lie to my child. I buy her gifts and we just spend it together I used to think I shouldn't tell the kids about Santa Claus, and we didn't, but we didn't try to stop them from believing in him, either. One day it dawned on me that Santa Claus is America's chief cultural icon--and that it makes us who we are, an extremely generous people. Generosity is built into our souls before we are even old enough to think about it. Santa Claus is...

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Is there a home remedy to kill mice? Every mouse has to die sooner or later--better a quick snap from a trap than to be played with for five minutes by a cat or swallowed whole by an owl. I baited my traps with hard sausage and caught 350 in two years before finding the hole.

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If you could be someone else for just one week, who would it be and why? Bill Clinton--so I could turn state's evidence on Hillary. The only thing keeping either one them out of prison for the rest of their lives is the fact that you can't compel a spouse to testify against a spouse in a criminal case. Which by the way is why Hillary would never divorce the bum, because the minute after the decree was final she'd be served with a stack of subpoenas...

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If we have free will, why must there be one true religion? can't we all get there our own way? Well, you can all get to the wrong place your own way. But there are some places that only one road goes to, say, a particular island, or mountaintop, or God. Which is why Jesus didn't say "I'll show a way," or even "I'll show the way." He said "I AM the way. No one comes to the Father but by me." You won't get to God the Father, sometimes...

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My husband is a Chef and always gets CARBON on his shirts and chef coats, I have tried so many things but cannot get it out. Any suggestions? Ink-removing dry-cleaning fluid from a large supermarket?

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Do you think it's better to be peaceful, happy, or right? Why? You can only choose one. Slaves have peace. Drunks and druggies may be the happiest little sinners on the block. I'd rather be right.

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Do you guys believe that we are the ultimate predator? What do you think are the consequences of having no natural predator? Will we only continue to deplete our resources until we all die? No, for two reasons. The population is going to hit a peak mid-century but all indicators are that it is going DOWN after that--Europeans for example are committing race suicide, and even Islamic birth rates are falling. When people rise above the subsistence level, the first thing that falls is the infant mortality rate and the second thing is the birthrate. Secondly, human ingenuity is...

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My full name means princess of the ocean - do you know what your first/last/full name means? Smith. (Slovakian.) Smith is the most common surname in most languages, not because there were so many of them, but because there would be only one in a village. There might be many Toms, Edwards or Roberts in a village, but only one of them would be a smith.

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Is it bad to find religion ridiculous? It's bad to tar all religions with the same brush. Some, obviously, are ridiculous, or violent, or pathetic. Others are philosophical or uplifting or simply help people get through their difficult times, and what's ridiculous about that?

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Do you think that there will come a time when there are no more new pieces of music to be written? At some time we are just going to run out of different ways in which to assemble the notes? I forget which college course we did this in, but we ran through the math of different tones, chords, durations and so forth and I was reassured to find that we will probably never run out of musical possibilities for originality.

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Is it okay to leave alone after marriage, because of husbands posting in another state, he is army person, I cant leave with in-laws, wt should I do, I m unmarried presently I have a question about your spelling. Do you mean "leave" (both times) or do you mean "live"? I suspect you are an immigrant. If you mean "live," of course it is OK to live alone.

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If Hilary became Preident how would she be addressed, "Mrs President" or "Madam President" or some other? A simple "Heil Hillary!" would suffice.

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How do you say i like pie in german In the first place, I'm not sure the Germans have what Americans call pie--torts are cakes. In the second place, when you like something you usually say "Ich habe ______ gern."

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We usually go with self-interest. Yet there seems to be a dichotomy in politics. Republicans usually are business-oriented and wealthy..why would working people who are not wealthy be affiliated with that party? Religion? Something else? You are factually incorrect. Democrats are wealthier than Republicans today. Republicans defend business only because businesses actually create good jobs--government just takes away their ability to create good jobs and creates lousy government jobs. Democrats believe in making people as equal as possible; Republicans believe in making people as free as possible. The two beliefs are in...

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Ive noticed im having real difficulty on focusing both distance/ closeup with my present glasses, the perscription is only 8mths old. i feel im needing stronger lenses already!! HELP Do you suffer bad eye sight how long was it before you noticed a change Ask the eye doctor. I knew a man who had rotating astigmatism and needed new lenses every four months.

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Foil melted on the bottom of my oven and I can't remove it. Any suggestions? Leave it there. Eventually it will oxidize to a gray powder that will come off when you scrub the drippings.

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If you were working a retail person, and in the interview they asked you give me a hard situation happend with you in that position, what do you give? Any ideas please. Someone bought a fancy dress, obviously for a wedding, and returned it on Monday with sweat stains and cigarette odor and said "It didn't fit, I didn't like it." (Hint: Start out with "This has obviously been worn for its intended purpose. It will have to be dry-cleaned before we can even think about accepting it, and even then I'll have to ask the general...

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Do you think the proposal to give U.S. taxpayers a rebate check of up to $500 will stimulate the economy? That makes as much sense as transfusing blood from one arm to the other through a leaky tube. Lower taxes. Don't take it from them in the first place and you won't have to think about giving it back. Cutting taxes is an economic stimulus package that has ALWAYS worked.

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Who is the greatest musical inspiration of all time? I know this is more of an opinion, but, but how many of us share the same opinion. Can there be any doubt that it was Handel's Messiah? This opera full of magnificent music, the size of a book, was written--words and music for soloists, choir, and orchestra--in 23 days! Most musicians couldn't HAND-COPY it in 23 days!

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I am 28 and pregnant with #4. During my previous pregnancies I lost weight early and didn't show until 5 months.I am only 8 weeks pregnant now and I have already gained over 10 pounds and cannot wear my clothes. What is Happening? Could be twins. Could be toxemia. Are your ankles also swollen? If so, you need to see a doctor immediately.

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If you were asked to re-design the human body, what changes would you make? A way to voluntarily increase your metabolic rate in time of need, so that fat people would just have to sleep outside in winter in their skivvies and wake up a couple pounds lighter every morning.

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Where does the universe end, and what is it surrounded by? As far as we know, stellar objects increase their speed the farther away they get from us. At about 15 billion light years, their speed reaches that of light, which means that no information about them can return to us, which means that that is the edge of the universe as far as we are concerned. From their point of view, we are at the edge of the universe. But it is possible from their...

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Can you sleep well when it's light out? Me: Never, I wish I could take naps during he day, I just simply cannot. That's what sleep masks are for. You get them at the drugstore. I can't nap without one.

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Do you think people should be required to get marriage counseling or attend a seminar BEFORE they get married? There are quite a few small cities in the USA where the clergy have gotten together and agreed that none of them will perform a wedding unless the couple goes through pre-marital counseling. So lots of people who are very familiar with marriage and divorce think it's a very good idea.

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How close is America to sinking into another depression era? There have been a lot of recessions in our history just because of the business cycle. The Great Depression was different from the rest, much longer and much worse, because it was caused mostly by the stupidity of a Republican President and prolonged by the stupidity of a Democratic President. There were several causes of the Depression. Some were beyond our control, such as failure of the...

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Is there anything I can buy that actually costs 'an arm and a leg'? Converting from Islam to Christianity in Saudi Arabia or Iran would result in them cutting off your right arm and your left leg.

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What does it mean to be 'pistol whipped'? To be struck on the head with a pistol as with great big brass knuckles. It should be pointed out that--despite one million Westerns and detective movies to the contrary--there is no technique for pistol-whipping or black-jacking that will result in unconsciousness without a very strong risk of killing your target. So don't do it unless you're in a situation so serious that...

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What should I do for the flu? Do NOT buy these ten-ingredient flu medicines. You probably only have two or three symptoms, such as headache, nausea, or whatever. Treat only those symptoms otherwise you get ten medicines with ten different side effects such as drowsiness.

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Was Lee Harvey Oswald innocent? No. The prosecutor from the Charles Manson trial, I forget his name, spent twenty years evaluating every aspect the of the case, answered all the questions, and there is no longer any other conclusion possible than that Oswald did it and that he acted alone.

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How many blocks would it take to run 1 1/2 miles? Im planning on starting to run. City blocks are different lengths, but you can go to City Hall and find out.

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I live in south Africa, would you assume that i am black? Since you're using the Internet and messing around with Answerbag, and speaking good English except for capitalization, I would assume you were likelier white, although one of the few people I know there who is black DOES speak English and owns a net cafe.

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They just recently cloned a genetically altered cow, and are proposeing to mix a human fetus with a cows. If you had the option to be cloned with an animals fetus which animal would you like to be cloned with? This deserves an answer from a religious perspective. The Bible has a lot of prohibitions against improper mixing. In fact, the entire second day of creation was not spent creating, but dividing between things--day and night, sea and dry land... Those who take the Bible seriously would not want any part of this Frankensteinian experiment.

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I know Marigolds are good for planting near tomatoes. What are other examples of "Companion Planting"? The pioneers usually planted corn, pole beans, and pumpkins together. The beans fertilized the corn by adding nitrogen to the soil. The corn lifted the beans off the ground so they'd get more sunlight and wouldn't rot. And the pumpkins, with their prickly vines, annoyed raccoons so much by sticking into their soft feet that they left the corn pretty much alone.

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If you went shopping at a "big box" store; When you get home you realize that the clerk did not charge you for a 50 Lbs. bag of dog food that costs around $20.00. Would you return and pay for the bag or would you say nothing and just steal the bag? I'd staple the UPC code from the bag to my receipt, and next time I went to the store go to the service desk, explain and pay. This actually happened to me around New Year's, but it wasn't with dog food.

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My computer is running really slow and it is getting slower,what could the problem be ? ...thankyou First thing to do is restart. Second is going to lavasoft.com and download their free anti-spyware program. You might have lots of data-miner cookies from the internet slowing things down.

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Is it ok to smack a pit on the nose as a puppy to not be so aggressive, and is it ok to smack the bottom when potting on the rug? I guess what is the best way to raise a pit in a none agressive envorment? This is not how a dog is wired. A puppy is wired to be disciplined the way its mother disciplines it--she takes it gently by the throat, shakes it and growls. So you shake it gently by the throat and growl "No!" at the same time. It'll get the message quite soon. You can get a book on dog psychology at the library. It will be helpful.

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Will brushing your teeth WITHOUT toothpaste still eliminate bad breath or plaque? If for some reason you can't use toothpaste on a regular basis--and Ican't imagine what that would be--it would be even better to floss.

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I live in a small town and every potential partner i meet is already taken. where are good places to meet single women aged18-22 Go to the library. Find a book written for girls that tells them how to meet guys. Find out where girls expect guys to be. Be there. I thought I was brilliant for thinking this up, but Rush Limbaugh thought it up years earlier.

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Are A's in school today overrated? There has definitely been grade inflation. It started during the Vietnam war when peacenik profs didn't want anyone to flunk out and be drafted.

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I am dating man 5 ft 4ins, we are same height he is great guy but he is short, he seems to REALLY care for me, i really want to marry and have kids before i am too old, (34 now) do u think i should marry him if he asks or just keep looking for taller guy? Some men are measured from the neck UP, and some from the neck DOWN. Presumably you don't have the face and figure of a supermodel (or else you'd be one), and he still cares for you. Don't be so superficial! He isn't!

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Describe yourself in one sentence. I, for example, am extremely intelligent with spontaneous flashes of idiocy and have genetic klutziness. You too?

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Why do guys slap each other on the backside during sports? Outside of sports, it's a backslap. I'd guess because the back is covered with sweat and a clammy backslap leaving the shirt stuck to the back would be unwelcome.

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Have you ever traveled for more than two hours on a train? Lots of 27-hour trips across Ukraine, and one from Wisconsin to Sacramento on Amtrak. Love it.

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I m 13 years old.i m 5 feet 2 inches tall and want to grow an inch or two more.plz help and guide me. Can't tell from your name whether you are a boy or a girl. If you're a girl, what's wrong with being 5'2"? If you're a guy, eat nutritious food with plenty of minerals like calcium and phosphorus instead of junk food, soda, and lots of fat (which tends to remove the calcium). You'll probably grow more, but if you don't, remember this sentence for any...

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Could you give me some information about Reader's Digest? It used to be a fanatastically great magazine. I grew up in the 50's and read each issue several times, because they had wonderful, life-changing articles with tremendously good advice and important information in every issue. In the last decade or so it's become almost nothing but fluff, and just look at the ads! It's aimed at retirees! The slogan used to be "An...

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Hey, if you use a toothbrush once, doesn't the bacteria stay on the brush? so why use it again if it still has bacteria on it? If you rinse your brush afterwards and let it air dry, at least the bacteria won't multiply in between brushings. Periodically--and especially after a cold or the flu--you should pour peroxide or bleach over your dry toothbrush. Let it soak a few minutes and then rinse it. Both peroxide and bleach are a kind of liquid fire that destroys all forms of life that they touch, but...

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To hell with the US government and military. They've admitted that the whole thing about Iran having nukes was a charade, but they're still stirring up tension for war. What's wrong with these people? To hell with you! You're an insignificant little twit of a college punk, but the United States military first destroyed the unholy trinity of European fascism, Japanese imperialism and Soviet communism; second is protecting the world from Islamic totalitarianism; third acts as the world's policeman and keeps a lot of bad guys like Moammar Qaddafy from developing nuclear weapons; and...

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How do you make wine? Get a book of recipes from the library or on the internet. To avoid it spoiling, you need to make at least a gallon at a time. Just buy commercial fruit juice of the right type, put it in a very clean container in a cool dark place, and add yeast! It may be that the yeast will use up all the sugar and make it more tart than you want, but this can be remedied with added sugar. You should...

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Which shakespearean character hid her broken heart with a brave face? Might be Desdemona in Othello.

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If You believe God can do anything Can God move a mountain that cannot be moved? What you have done is taken a nonsense situation and put the words "Can God" in front of it. Nonsense situation: Can an unmovable mountain be moved by an irresistable force? Answer: The two can't exist in the same universe. It's a logical contradiction, and outside of mental hospitals logical contradictions can't exist. Many such sentences can be...

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Why were certain people chosen for the Mayan human sacrifices? They couldn't run very fast....

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To all meat eaters...do you have a favourite game meat? Not terribly experienced, but I've read that impala is the best-tasting meat in the world, and that was what I thought it must be after I had some.

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Do you support the "school voucher" idea? Why or why not? Definitely. It breaks the teacher's union monopoly. The public school monopoly has been failing for half a century now, and the only answer the teachers' unions can think of is "Give us more money!" That just subsidizes continued failure. What needs to be done is not give more money, but inject competition. Teachers' unions don't give a damn about kids....

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How do you get rid of cold feet? I've worn socks and put a heating pad on my feet too, but nothing I've tried has worked. Any suggestions? Well, I stopped wearing Wellington boots because my feet got too hot; stands to reason therefore that wearing them when your feet are too cold would keep them warm. You can get boots that look pretty much like shoes, and during the winter can put rubber overshoes on them against the snow and slickness.

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Today's headlines have Bush calling Iran a threat to world peace. Isn't it the Bush regime that's threatened world peace over & over and now again? Iran's president has called over and over again for the annihilation of a member state of the UN, by nuclear means as soon as possible. Trying to restrain this religious fanatic is not threatening peace, it is upholding it.

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Why are the people working here at Starbucks all singing "You've Lost that Loving Feeling?" They found out how much better coffee tastes with a little Kahlua in it.

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Fellow atheist, Do you find it annoying that most people have no idea what an atheist is? Actually, a lot of atheists say they are atheists when they are actually mistheists. They believe in God--but they hate Him. (Misogynist, man who hates woman; misogamist, one who hates marriage; mistheist, one who hates God.) A true atheist shouldn't hate God any more than he hates Zeus, Baal or Vishnu.

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Do you believe that sometimes good can arise out of situations that were intended to create harm? Heavens yes. Just read the story of Joseph in Genesis, chapters 37 and 39-50. (If you haven't read it, you'd really enjoy it! One of the fascinating classics of world literature!) You can skip Chapter 38, which just shows why Judah was unfit for leadership in Israel so that leadership passed to his younger brother Joseph.

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Is outer space dark or black? is space bright? It's dark and transparent. "Black" is the name of a pigment, that which absorbs all colors of light, and space doesn't absorb anything--light passes right through it. Nor is it bright. It takes air and dust in the air to scatter light in all directions so that a day seems bright. When you are looking at a night sky you are seeing outer space--dark wherever there are no...

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When someone dies can you have the skin with their tattoo's cut off and keep them in a picture frame? All kidding aside, YOU can't do anything. If the deceased had made arrangements beforehand to have it done, clearing it with the law and so forth, perhaps. But the law would consider it desecrating a body if you or even the family did this. I don't know what the prohibitions and penalties would be in your jurisdiction.

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When someone dies can you have the skin with their tattoo's cut off and keep them in a picture frame? You've obviously forgotten the lesson of the great Australian entertainer Rolf Harris who said "Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred, tan me hide when I'm dead. So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde, (Spoken) And that's it hanging on the shed! All together now: Tie me kangaroo down, sport, tie me kangaroo down...."

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If you steal a corpse from a graveyard and write a ransom letter to the family of the deceased and demand payment or else they will never see the deceased alive again, is that legally kidnapping? I hope this is just your sick imagination, since grave robbers are considered the scum of the earth. Consider Edgar Allen Poe's description of them: "They are neither man nor woman They are neither beast nor human They are ghouls." The Christian rock group Petra made one of the greatest songs of all time in their song "Grave Robber" in which they paradoxically...

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If bike or car stay for a long time(more than 8 hours) before extreme sun heat(above 50 degree); does its fuel(petrol or diesel or gas) inside the fuel tank reach to the autoignition point? Rest easy, mate! The only thing in a car's gas tank is gasoline and gasoline vapor. It can't ignite unless the tank ruptures (and it would have to be a lot hotter than 50 for that to happen) AND there was a spark nearby.

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What is the proportion of air on earth? The lithosphere (solid portion) of the earth is about four thousand miles thick. If the earth were as smooth as a billiard ball, water would be two miles deep everywhere. And if the atmosphere suddenly cooled to the temperature of liquid air, it would become a layer ten feet deep. I'll leave you to do the math yourself.

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The price of crude is touching $100/= a barrel ! What is the reason for this? Is there no way to control or reduce the price rise? Lots of things are contributing. Two of the biggest are the weak dollar and the fact that Democrats control Congress. If it weren't for the Democrats in Congress, we would be able to drill for oil offshore and in Alaska, we would have more refineries, there would be more nuclear power plants instead of oil-burning electric companies, there wouldn't be so many environmental...

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How would today's world look like if the Bible had never existed or been completely destroyed? What would it change for you? Two great recent books on the subject: If Jesus had Never Been Born by D. James Kennedy; and Under the Influence by Alvin Schmidt, renamed How Christianity Changed the World. To sum up, most of what we have that is good, we wouldn't without Judaism and Christianity. Women would have no rights, slavery would be everywhere, science and medicine would hardly exist, child molesting would...

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Is lunar real estate a fraud? Of course it is. You can only buy and sell land that is controlled by a particular government, and your government won't protect your property rights on the Moon. My French is a little rusty, but I believe "real estate" comes from "royal property," which is why we have to pay rent (property taxes) to the "king" every year, or lose our land.

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Just after the Big Bang, the universe could not have had everywhere the same temperature. Why do we observe today an universe that has everywhere about the same cosmic microwave background radiation? The logical conclusion is that the Big Bang didn't happen.

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Should Jodie44 make us all toast? I'm already toast!

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If you were to biologically engineer a virus/disease or identify one, what would it be called and what would effects would it have? not necessarily negative, can be positive or both. I'd engineer a virus that specifically attacks human fat cells, but which is infectious rather than contagious--that is, you could only get it if you wanted it rather than just catching it through the air.

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Tang--Yay or Nay & Any Other Recipes For It? There once was a fellow named Chang Who detested the flavor of Tang. But then he poured in A large dollop of gin And thereafter its praises he sang!

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How easy is it to change a petrol car to one that runs off LPG? How much does it roughly cost and would it have to be changed on DVLA and insurance? Would they charhe you more/less for running LPG? You'll probably have less acceleration if you do. In many cars that isn't important but in some it is.,

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What does "uptown girl" mean? The other answers are correct, and you can YouTube it to hear the 1983 Billy Joel song.

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I have been going out with this girl since last 6+ months by now. Many of my friends have mentioned that she really likes me. At times, I keep thinking that I can get a better girl than her but w Don't flatter yourself. She probably thinks the same but is more realistic.

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What's the fastest and most strategic way to extract an elephant from a lake? Take a pair of binoculars, a tweezer and a milk bottle. Turn the binoculars backwards and make the elephant small enough to pick up with the tweezers, put in the milk bottle and bring to shore!

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Do you ever feel that you end up paying the price for other peoples actions? About 2% of the people ruin it for everything else. That's why we need locks on doors, car and house alarms, security codes, airport checks.... What we need are politicians with enough male hormones and backbone to send that 1% up to a labor camp in central Alaska and feed them dog food until they're too old and worn out to cause any more harm.

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What is more dangerous then War? Having the second-best army.

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What do you call a person from the US? This is a trick question because its not internationally recognized as American, in fact Canadians can be offended by this. So what are we called? Where I live, we get both, so when I hear an American accent I say, "Ah, North American! Canada or United States?"

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What is the bravest species of animal? The Jack Russell terrier is bred to be absolutely fearless. One fellow in South Africa had to get rid of his because it kept attacking his elephants.

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Is there a "speed of dark"? When the moon eclipses the sun, the darkness we see arrives on earth one and a quarter seconds after it actually happened because the moon is 238,000 miles away and the speed of light is 186,000/second.

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A friend of mine converted to Islam, he argued Islam is clear and reasonable (no confusions like Trinity). Is he right? Buddhism is even clearer and more reasonable. Why not convert to something that truly is a religion of peace? (If he's rejected Christianity he's not likely to come back to it.)

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Can you tell me a short story that is almost believable? My three flashlights are like my three teenage sons. I can always find all of them and they're always ready to work.

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Does the Earth go around the Moon or does the Moon go around the Earth? Neither. Both earth and moon orbit a moving point 1,000 miles under the earth's surface which is directly between the centers of earth and moon. That's because the earth is 81 times heavier than the moon, and the line connecting their centers of gravity is 243,000 miles apart. 243,000 divided by 81 is 3,000, so the center of gravity of the earth-moon system is 3,000 miles from the...

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Why moon orbits the Earth? Actually it doesn't. Both earth and moon orbit a moving point 1,000 miles under the earth's surface which is directly between the centers of earth and moon. That's because the earth is 81 times heavier than the moon, and the line connecting their centers of gravity is 243,000 miles apart. 243,000 divided by 81 is 3,000, so the center of gravity of the earth-moon system is...

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I have been married for 11 years, we have 4 children. My wife is now talking to and going and seeing another man. She wants me to leave so she can find herself. Can I make her leave since she is the one cheating on me. Please help.. Don't leave! The courts will award the children, AND most of your income, to her if you do. Get a lawyer immediately. Dennis Prager just had an excellent program on this entitled "THe War Against Fathers." You can find and download it from the "Show Clips" at pragerradio.com.

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Have you ever injured your fingers from all the typing that you do on AB? Makes my arthritis act up and I have to do things to ease it.

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Whats the purpose of earlobes, except for hanging stuff on them? They can show cardiovascular disease. When a person gets older and sees creases in the lobes that weren't there before, he or she should get a cardiac checkup and do things for weight and blood pressure, because 60% of such creases indicate arteriosclerosis.

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Do fish ever sneeze? Fish don't breathe through their noses.

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When I am walking my dog, considering that he has twice as many legs as I do,is he getting twice as much exercise as I am or half as much? I doubt that he's getting any. I had two dogs in the ten kilo (22 pound) range and clocked them both running at 28 miles per hour, that would be 45 kph.

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Here's a dumb question: Why do so many schools spend $$$ for sports and then complain that they don't have enough money to provide anyone with an education? What does playing sports have to do with getting an education anyway? Sports are public entertainment and have nothing whatsoever to do with education... except that students are at the age when playing games is still important to most of them, so they are usually associated.

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Does anyone know of any body language that isn't universal? for example a nod of the head means yes to most cultures - but means no in others... anyone else know any others? I live in Ukraine and have frequently told Ukrainians not to bother trying to read my body language because whenever they tell me what they think I'm thinking, they're wrong. And I can't read theirs, though I've read a couple books on American body language.

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Have you ever been in a play? Who did you play? Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof." The best time I've ever had in my life.

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What are the laws on cat ownership in California? Are cats allowed to roam freely, or is there a law/code requiring that cats be confined to the owner's property? Any "leash law" or similar item that applies to cats? I wouldn't know, but cats have no business being outdoors. They can't see far enough to avoid being hit by cars, and all too many motorists have had serious or even fatal accidents swerving to avoid a cat. (Note to all motorists: Brake, but don't swerve. If you don't care about killing yourself, consider the other cars on the road. It's only a cat. It can be...

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If the plural of tooth is teeth, why is the plural of booth not beeth? :) A lot of strange English plurals such as tooth-teeth and foot-feet can be explained by looking at the German word it is similar to. "Foot" is simplest. In German, one foos, two fuissi (I'm trying to spell phonetically). "Foos" is pronounced at the back of the throat, but the short "i's" in "fuissi" are pronounced near the front of the tongue,...

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Do you bring anything into the bathroom with you to... you know... help pass the time? If so, what? (And I'm talking about doing #2, if you didn't know.) Is this a gross question? Always take my MP3 player and downloaded talk radio so I can take my time. The reason is because most hernias could be eliminated if guys weren't in a hurry to get it over with. We lock our vocal cords closed in something called the Valsalva maneuver, push hard, and over a lifetime that weakens our inguinal area, resulting in a hernia in your 40's or 50's. It isn't the...

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What if I put one microwave inside another one, and turn both on, can I cook things twice as fast? You can't even get the door closed on the larger one because of the wire, silly.

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What remedies will soothe a sore throat? Crush a couple Vitamin C tablets in my tea, add honey

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How do you respond to a person who seems to always have a negative repsonse to everything? Dennis Prager has a radio hour on this every Friday. You can listen to his Happiness Hour at pragerradio.com, just click on "show clips" and look for "Happiness". He says things like "Happiness is a moral obligation" and "we have no more right to inflict our bad moods on people than have to inflict bad breath and B.O." and "Happy people make the...

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Stupid riddle#16: What get whiter the dirter it gets? Africans told a colleague of mine (I wasn't there, but he is very truthful) that they wash the white off.

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Who do you believe will become the next U.S. President? The best hope we have right now is a brokered Republican convention that would nominate Newt Gingrich.

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What do you think will happen if the United States pulls out of Iraq? Ethnic cleansing and mass murder on a scale not seen since Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung; control of the region by Iran and its conversion into a terror-exporting state; tremendous ramping up of terror attacks on Americans everywhere because the terrorists will be seen as triumphant and we will be seen as weak; abandonment by our allies since we will be seen as too weak to keep our promises;...

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