Resolved Question: Texas. Why does everyone think it is the worst state in the U.S.?

Here's an example of what America thinks: 1. Texans. Socially retarded acts of bravado. Lack of self awareness. Isolationistic in thought. Kind of like someone who was raised under a rock, but the rock was big, so they boast about how big the rock was. There's more, but, man, it's so sad - and they don't even know it! 2. Texas politics. I am a conservative who votes republican. Texans are rednecks who vote republican. should I buy an "I'm with stupid" T-shirt? 3. Tx is a Mexican border state. Complete with roads traveled by drug cartels feeding the increasing violent crime rate, drug use, and ever expanding prison population in Tx. That isn't nice and I don't have this problem in my state. 4. Is EVERYONE in Tx chewing tobacco?? 5. Leading state for hate groups. There are more known hate groups in tx then any other state. They all hate different groups for different reasons. When you get right down to it, no one is safe in tx - not even texans. Testament to tx long tradition of nice, down to earth, clan members and level-headed cult fanatics. 6. There are Two seasons in Tx, hot and hotter. There is a third if you count the hurricane season. A fourth if you count squirrel season. 7. Texas' branding of Tex-mex. Uh, we all know it's just Mexican. Maybe Kansas should capitalize on Cantonese food and call it Kan-Can. It's catchier, and doesn't sound like a gas station when you say it. 8. Over industrialization of undesirable industries. Yes, when you visit tx, you get the full impact of what a cesspool they've made out of their state with factories, oil refineries, and chemical plants. Don't get me wrong, it is good somebody is manufacturing this stuff out there, but, man, you've got to be six flags short of a theme park to live amongst the stench-filled, chemical run-off, heat-fest that is tx. 9. Texas as a state ranks in the top 5 of all states for all major pollutants. Go figure. The EPA says you can't breathe the air for fear of carcinogens, can't drink the water for fear of toxins, can't eat the seafood for fear of mercury poisoning, and the Taiwanese plants spill high levels of run-off into the neighborhoods. That isn't good either! 10. "Clampet" stereotypes which aren't all together untrue. I've never seen any other collective bunch unwittingly living up to negative stereotypes. Perhaps some t-shirts can be air dropped to them. You know, t-shirts that say something like, "thank god i struck oil, cuz my double-wide needs a fixin" 11. Texan's general confusion between pride and reason. there is a healthy pride, and then there is a texan pride. actually, a texan is proud of his state like a branch davidian is proud of his cool-aid. 12. "DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS". Why would I need to mess with Texas when it's already messed up? What's wrong with the old standby: Yeeeeeeehaw!!!!..and other inane slogans that demonstrate an inability to articulate one's self. 13. Corrupt institutions of business. Enron was a great. But, no one can beat the oil companies for blood money, environmental destruction, greed, and corruption. a texan would tell you that corruption only exists in zip codes outside their magical state. is this true? 14. Cults and fundamentalists. Kind of self explanatory. Apparently, tx is the perfect place for those who like to organize and be merry while preying on kids. Gotta love tx. 15. Backwards thinking. State first? Country second, or is there something between state and country like, i don't know, socks or peanut butter? You gotta love state first mentality. If the country is attacked, would tx try to side with mexico just to save their own state? Kind of like, if the house was burning, you'd only save your favorite bathroom. Lots of reasoning there. wait a minute! i'm going to start a new one. it's called home owners association first! Hey tx, do you shoot people in the back too? Buncha anti-american secessionist quitters! just kidding, only 20% of you are the American Taliban. 16. Worst humidity and dew point. Yes it is true. Houston/bay area is tied with annual averages for the worst humidity and dew point in the united states per NOAA. In a nutshell, it's like a sauna. a constant sauna for 7 months out of the year. so is hell. 17. Hurricanes. you got it. more of my tax dollars go to natural disasters like hurricanes in tx. nothing like every hurricane season fearing the wrath of god upon your family and home. 18. Tornadoes. this must have to do with the fact that tx leads the nation in the amount of trailor homes as a percentage of all homes. the good thing is, tx is flat and has nothing around for 100's of miles. so, not many people should get hurt except those who ask for it. you know, texans. 19. Trailer trash. "T" stands for trailor trash, tornadoes, truck stops, terrible, tacky, terrorist, taliban, travesty, and one more...uh...dang, i forgot. 20. Prison over population. tx just can't kill 'em fast more

Resolved Question: Camden/ Alternative fashion, please take the time to fill out this short survey as part of research?

Hi my name is Zoe and I am conducting research for a video for my coursework. My video will base around fashion and more specifically alternative clothing. It will be a great help if you can fill out this survey as I want to get opinions for a wider range of people than just asking my friends etc. 1.How old are you? Under 15 []16-20 []21-30 []31-40 []41-59 [] 60+ [] 2.Are you? Male []Female [] 3.Do you live in or around London? Yes []No [] 4.How you personally define fashion? 5.Do you know what is in fashion currently? 6.What do you think is in fashion currently? 7.How would you define alternative fashion? 8.Who do you think wears alternative fashion? 9.Are you aware of Camden market as a place for alternative fashion? Yes []No [] 10.Have you ever been to Camden market? Yes []No [] If YES to question 10 answer the following questions: Did you enjoy it? Yes []No [] Why Would you go again? Yes []No [] Why? If NO to question 10 answer the following questions: Would you ever consider going to Camden Market? Yes []No [] Why? 11.Where else do you know of has alternative style clothing? (Either currently or shops from the past), and where abouts were they (if you are able to say). 12.Which of the following statements is closest to you? I like to wear expensive brands [] I like to wear discount brands [] I like to wear casual clothing [] I like to wear alternative clothing [] 13.I have worn or bought the following: (Tick all appropriate) Jeans [] Plain trousers (solid colour, also including business trousers [] Plain T-shirts (solid colour) [] Patterned T-shirts (with some sort of picture or design) [] Other casual or designer wear [] Alternative patterned T-shirts (for example crosses, skulls etc) [] Slogan T-Shirts (with a central writing on) [] Band T-Shirts (T-shirts of a band) [] Corsets (including corset style tops and dresses with corsets) [] Tutus (including tutu styled skirts short or long) [] Chokers/gothic style necklaces [] Gothic style skirts (including layered, gothic designs [] Chains that can be attached to clothing (like on belts) [] Other alternative clothing [] 14.Do you have any other comments on alternative fashion? 15.Do you have any other comments on Camden Market? Thank you for completing this survey more

Resolved Question: Alternative fashion/Camden Market research please take the time to fill in this short survey?

Hi my name is Zoe and I am conducting research for a video for my coursework. My video will base around fashion and more specifically alternative clothing. It will be a great help if you can fill out this survey as I want to get opinions for a wider range of people than just asking my friends etc. 1.How old are you? Under 15 []16-20 []21-30 []31-40 []41-59 [] 60+ [] 2.Are you? Male []Female [] 3.Do you live in or around London? Yes []No [] 4.How you personally define fashion? 5.Do you know what is in fashion currently? 6.What do you think is in fashion currently? 7.How would you define alternative fashion? 8.Who do you think wears alternative fashion? 9.Are you aware of Camden market as a place for alternative fashion? Yes []No [] 10.Have you ever been to Camden market? Yes []No [] If YES to question 10 answer the following questions: Did you enjoy it? Yes []No [] Why Would you go again? Yes []No [] Why? If NO to question 10 answer the following questions: Would you ever consider going to Camden Market? Yes []No [] Why? 11.Where else do you know of has alternative style clothing? (Either currently or shops from the past), and where abouts were they (if you are able to say). 12.Which of the following statements is closest to you? I like to wear expensive brands [] I like to wear discount brands [] I like to wear casual clothing [] I like to wear alternative clothing [] 13.I have worn or bought the following: (Tick all appropriate) Jeans [] Plain trousers (solid colour, also including business trousers [] Plain T-shirts (solid colour) [] Patterned T-shirts (with some sort of picture or design) [] Other casual or designer wear [] Alternative patterned T-shirts (for example crosses, skulls etc) [] Slogan T-Shirts (with a central writing on) [] Band T-Shirts (T-shirts of a band) [] Corsets (including corset style tops and dresses with corsets) [] Tutus (including tutu styled skirts short or long) [] Chokers/gothic style necklaces [] Gothic style skirts (including layered, gothic designs [] Chains that can be attached to clothing (like on belts) [] Other alternative clothing [] 14.Do you have any other comments on alternative fashion? 15.Do you have any other comments on Camden Market? Thank you for completing this survey more

Resolved Question: Funny cell phone company slogans?

I am doing a project and we are creating our own cell phone companies. One of the required info is to create a slogan. Does anyone know of any funny ones, or make one up off the top of your head? Thanks in advanced, winner gets 10 points!!!!! more

Resolved Question: Please can anyone fill in this questionnaire asap!!!?

Music Magazine Questionnaire 1. What age group do you think a music magazine should be aimed at? 16 and Under 17- 25 26-34 35-46 47 and over 2. What gender are you? Male Female 3. Which of these mastheads would you associate with a music magazine? Reggae/Rock Regime Harmony Printed Beats BEATZ Life ‘n’ Lyrics VIBE instrumag! WHAMbam Jitterbug Intune Notes Aloud/Allowed Other……………………………………… 4. What do you look for in a music magazine? Latest Gossip Tour/Gig/Festival Dates Promotions- discount of albums etc Backstage Action Local music shops Advice on best music equipment, music lessons etc Interviews 5. How often would you expect the magazine to be published? Daily Weekly Two weeks Monthly 6. How much are you willing to spend on a music magazine? Under £1.99 £2 -£3.49 £3.50-£4.49 £4.50 and above 7. What is your favourite type of music? Rock Pop Indie Dance Reggae Rap Hip Hop Mixed .8. What colours do you think this magazine should consist of? Genre Specified Bright Colours Pastel Colours Dark Colours Other……………………….. 9. Which of the following images would you want to see on a cover of a music magazine? Band in action Band members standing back to back Individual Artists Sponsor people Events- Gigs/Festivals/Concerts Instruments e.g. Drums Other……………………………… 10. Which slogan do you think would be best for this music magazine? Feel the pulse with your up to date knowledge! Make your way to the top of the pops Feel the vibe with these tune trippin’ beats! Life ‘n’ lyrics in Harmony Rock In! Rock Out! This will rock you Other……………………………………………………….. more

Resolved Question: Ten worst fashion trends now?

Or as I call them fashoff trends. I saw this post on another forum on the web and it got some really funny responses so I thought I'd ask it here. Give me your 10 hates is style and fashion here are mine. 1. I would love to see the down fall of A&F and Hollister just to get rid of the popped collars and the name plastered on every shirt and hoodie. 2. Bad hair all around... especially the faux hawk and the totally frizzy spiky in the back long in front EMO hair. 3. Muffins tops! Buy clothes that fit your body people! 4. Ed Hardy and Affliction tees... they say "I'm a douchebag"... god they are so cliche... and what exactly are you afflicted with other than douchebaggery? 5. Any shirt with a smartass slogan. 6. Anyone who was ten years old or younger when Wayne's World came out wearing an Alice, Cooper, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Stones, Blondie, Prince, Queen, Pink Floyd, Led Zep etc. T-shirt... especially any faux vintage tour t-shirt as if you were really there... Let's get real if I walked around wearing some Paramore shirt or other cliche Hot Topic band I'd be a joke. Don't fuck with my bands you don't listen too and I won't fuck with you're crappy bands that I don't listen too, okay? 7. The trend of wearing sunglasses indoors. 8. Sagging pants need to go to. They should've gone back in early 90's when my generation started that whole mess. 9. Stickers on the hats that's like still having the tags attached to your clothes fool! 10. The 80's are back, the neon, the headbands, the punk pins, the leggings but apparently nobody bothered to actually look at the 80s to see how it was pulled off or not pulled off. Epic fail all around in my opinion. And LOVED the 80s neon style. Special award to Converse sneakies because they were SO FUCKING AWESOME until Nike bought them out and I can't support Nike. more

Voting Question: Who said the following statements?

Take this simple quiz, the person who scores highest gets an easy 10 points. Question #1: Following up on the examples at the top of the page, who touted “basic” medical services "that ensure healthy future generations, ensure development of practical reasoning skills, and ensure full and active participation by citizens in public deliberations"…while…"services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed". A) Dr. Joseph Mengele B) Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel C) Dr. Phil Question #2: Who said: “We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive…so we’re going to let you die.” A) Adolph Hitler B) Robert “Thousand Year” Reich C) Reich Marshall Hermann “Meier” Goring Question #3: Which national leader smoked cigarettes? A) Fidel Castro B) Barack Obama C) Adolph Hitler Question #4: Who used the slogan: “Public need before private greed." A) The Democrat Party B) George Soros (Same as A) C) Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels Question #5: Who believed: “Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” A) Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Gobbels B) MSNBC Propaganda Minister Chris Matthews C) William Randolph Hearst Question #6: Who admonished that, “A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and government.” A) Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels B) Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Czar Cass Sunstein C) CBS Propaganda Minister Katie Couric Question #7: Who envisioned his administration embarking upon a new direction, saying, “The world shall open up for everyone. Privileges for individuals, the tyranny of certain nations and their financial rulers shall fall. And last of all this year will help to provide the foundations of a real understanding among peoples, and with it the certainty of conciliation among nations.” A) Adolph Hitler B) Barack Hussein Obama C) George W. Bush Question #8. Who said: “I see no reason why this war must go on” A) Adolph Hitler B) Cindy Sheehan C) Barack Hussein Obama Question #9: Who believed that: “Words build bridges into unexplored regions.” A) Barack Hussein Obama B) Unrepentant Terrorist and Obama auto-biographer Bill Ayers C) Adolf Hitler Question #10: Which anti-Semite said: “Do you know some of these satanic Jews have taken over [national healthy lifestyle foundation]?... Everything that we built, they have. The mind of Satan now is running the [industries]. And they make us look like we’re the murderers; we look like we’re the gangsters…” A) Adolph Hitler B) SS Reichfuhrer Heinrich Himmler C) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Question #11: Which organization demanded the “nationalization of all previous associated industries and trusts” and “a division of the profits of all heavy industries”? A) The Young Communists B) Service Employees International Union C) The Nazi Party Question #12: Who presented a world leader with a child and said: “Here stands a youth -- a youth that does not know class and caste. Behind you, follows the young generation of our people. Because you are the greatest example of unselfishness in this nation, this young generation wants to be unselfish too.” A) Hitler Youth founder Baldur von Schirach B) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan C) Safe School Czar & Gay Rights Activist Kevin Jennings Question #13: Who said: “I pledge to be a servant of our leader.” A) Demi Moore B) Reich Marshall Herman “Meier” Goering C) Both Question #14: Who believed: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We have got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded." A) Adolph Hitler B) Barack Hussein Obama C) SA Brownshirt organizer Ernst Rohm Question #15: How about: "Our destiny as [Germans or Americans] is tied up with one another. If we are less respected in the world, then you will be less safe." A) Barack Hussein Obama B) Adolph Hitler C) Kalifornia Obergruppenfuhrer Ahnold Schwarzenegger Question #16: Who once said: “We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle.” A) Barack Hussein Obama B) The Reverend Jesse Jackson C) SS Reich Minister Heinrich Himmler Question #17: Who made the proclamation: "The world must stand together to demonstrate that international law is not an empty promise and that more

Resolved Question: What is a catchy slogan for a Hover shoe?

i need a catchy slogan for a hover shoe. it is a high-top sneaker that can hover and move up to 10 mph. it can hover over mud, water, dog poo what ever u dont want to step in. easy way to get a student to class faster. it runs on solar energy as well. so its eco-friendly any sort of slogan idea is great more

Resolved Question: Viagra slogans (20 characters)?

The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week. When everyone gathered, the boss, who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt-out staff the purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The theme: Viagra advertising slogans. The only rule! was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products, that captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable. About 7 minutes later, they turned in their suggestions and created a Top 10 List. With all the laughter and camaraderie, the rest of the week went very well for everyone! The top 10 were: 10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up! 9. Viagra, The quicker pecker picker upper. 8. Viagra, like a rock ! 7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. 6. Viagra, Be all that you can be. 5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone. 4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. 3. Viagra, Home of the whopper! 2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life! And the unanimous number one slogan: 1. This is your peepee. This is your peepee on drugs. more

Resolved Question: Is this Legislation a violation on Civil Liberties & what do you think?

Source: http://www.gov.bc.ca/ag/ INFORMATION BULLETIN 2009AG0010-000453 October 7, 2009 Ministry of Attorney General MISCELLANEOUS STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT INTRODUCED BILL 13.... Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act – Amendments will provide the municipalities of Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler with temporary enforcement powers to enable them to swiftly remove illegal signs and graffiti during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The legislation does not change the existing scope of authority to regulate signs and graffiti. Rather, it provides, on a temporary basis, a faster way of removing signs and graffiti that violate municipal bylaws during the short period the Games are underway. Media Report: Source: The Vancouver Sun Newspaper http://communities.canada.com/vancouvers… Original report on topic by Daphane Bramham http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2010w… Recent report: Gagging citizens for the 2010 Olympics By Daphne Bramham 12 Oct 2009 Think Tank Filed under: Vancouver, Olympics, 2010, Whistler, B.C., civil liberties, Winter Olympics, protest, Richmond, democracy Nobody wants some embarrassing incident during the 2010 Winter Games that will give Vancouver a black-eye in the global community. Afterall, we’re spending billions of dollars to put on a Winter Games aimed at boosting Canadian pride and celebrating the skills of our athletes. But the politicians have got it wrong if they think that they’re not embarrassing us by giving police, security forces or any designated municipal employee in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler the extraordinary power to enter people’s homes and take down any “advertising-matter”— albeit with 24 hours’ notice. What’s particularly offensive about this draconian power is that no one is willing to define exactly what “advertising-matter” is. Does it include Tibetan flags? Does it only mean Pepsi posters since Coke is an Olympic top sponsor? Does it mean Olympic rings coupled with anti-Games slogans? Instead Vancouver’s bylaw (which I wrote about in the summer) and the bill currently before the B.C. legislature leaves the defining to the discretion of whoever might be designated to enforce this. The municipalities and the province are also poised to increase the penalty for sign offenders to $10,000 from $2,000 and up to six months in jail. As Robert Holmes, president of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association points out, six months in jail is usually reserved for criminals, who have a record of several conviction for breaking and entering. And isn’t this rich? When I went searching for a copy of the province’s Bill 13, I found the government’s contest for middle and secondary students to produce a video to celebrate the International Day of Democracy. The contest ends Nov. 15 and the grand prize is. . . a trip to Victoria and a tour of the legislature. Here’s part of what the contest promotion says: “Democracy is dependent on the expression of ideas and a culture of tolerance. Political tolerance implies freedom of expression, open dialogue and a diversity of views. It is the role of democractic [sic] institutions, such as parliament, to mediate tensions between diverging opinions and to accommodate the participation of all sectors of society.” I’m betting that any student tackling the issue of free expression during the Olympics won’t be winning that exciting trip to see our provincial politicians in action. Extra info. linked to subject: http://www.no2010.com/node/1018 more

Resolved Question: can anyone find a loop hole in my school's dress code?

i've done duct tape jeans, long colorful socks, tutus, fishnets, and gloves but i cant find any more loop holes. these are just some ideas. im not afraid to break the rules but if i get anything more serious than a detention my parents will kill me. im already on the wrong side of most of the authority at my school but i took a break from rebellion last year, so now im just trying to slip through the system's cracks rather than breaking it. any advice will do!! thanks!! DRESS CODE: ANY CLOTHING APPAREL which: * Is considered unsafe, dangerous, or a health hazard. * Contains offensive or obscene symbols, signs, slogans, or words degrading any gender, cultural, religious, or ethnic values * Contains language or symbols oriented toward violence, sex, drugs, alcohol, or tobacco. ANY ATTIRE OR GROOMING DISRUPTIVE TO THE INSTRUCTIONAL PROCESS which may include, but is not limited to: * Tank tops or dresses with straps narrower than 2" * Sheer/see -through blouses and skirts * Bare midriffs. * Halter-tops. * Short shorts/micro-mini dresses/skirts or high slit sides * Sunglasses * Overly revealing clothing * Clothing which allows underwear to be exposed - clothing must be "sized appropriate" * Pants and shorts are to be waist size appropriate, worn above the hips and over all undergarments * Extremes in hair styles, psychedelic colors, (hot colors), letters shaved in head. * Painted faces. No stick -on-skin tattoos * Bare feet or rubber thongs * No frayed pants or clothing with holes * No pierced lips or tongues or nose rings * Low cut shirts. * Single strap tops. GANG-RELATED APPAREL which may include, but is not limited to: * Hats, headgear or hoods during the school day. (Students athletes participating in sports requiring a hat may wear the school’s athletic hat as part of their sport activity.) * Chains. * Hairnets. * Monikers or other gang markings * Spiked rings, bracelets or long earrings * Bandanas which signify gang membership * Jewelry with gang symbols * Khakis worn with wool-type shirts * Gang-related overalls/ overalls with straps unbuckled * Web, untied, or dangling belts * Combat-type boots (10 hole or more), and flight jackets worn concurrently with combat boots (10 hole) * Dropped suspenders * Any combination of clothing which law enforcement agencies currently considered gang related (These may change.) * No Raiders attire * Any coat longer than the knees, i.e., trench coats * Wallet chains * Sweatshirts with hoods may be worn, but the hood may not * No O.C. or "Orange County" attire, or attire which names other cities Local schools are granted the authority to establish school-based dress and grooming standards. Principals are to work with teachers, students and parents in the establishment of any such local standards. ITEMS NOT PERMITTED ON SCHOOL GROUNDS Students should not bring the following items to school: * Laser pens * Large amounts of cash * Electronic games, nintendo etc. * Skateboards * Roller blades/Roller shoes * Grinders * Tape recorders * Boom boxes, CD Players, or radios of any kind * Pagers (medical emergencies only) * Communication devices of any kind * Expensive watches and jewelry * Cameras * *Cell phones Zero Tolerance Policy Any student who: * Brings a weapon on campus * Brings drugs or alcohol on campus * Threatens staff, students, or school will be suspended in accordance with the District Zero Tolerance Policy more

Resolved Question: Is campaign slogan 4 banker PR against 'populist overreaction' 2 bailouts 'stop complaining abt being fleeced'?

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNBWPPxGyWaU "Wall Street’s largest trade group has started a campaign to counter the “populist” backlash against bankers, enlisting two former aides to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to spearhead the effort. In memos of confidential meetings with top financial executives, the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association said it began this month the “execution phase” of the operation, which pledges to “embrace change” and accountability. The plan targets policy makers and the media in New York, London, Washington and Brussels and calls for a “city-by-city, grass roots” approach. The securities industry “must be perceived as part of the solution, which will allow it to better defend against populist overreaction,” the documents, prepared for a June 17 meeting of SIFMA’s board, said. The board meeting minutes and staff-written papers, obtained by Bloomberg News, outline the program crafted by polling, lobbying and public relations companies paid at least $85,000 a month. The memos provide a glimpse, in often candid language, into how Wall Street is grappling with its pariah status. “It is imperative that in this historic period of reform, the industry be recognized as playing a positive role in seeking change and providing solutions to the problems we face,” one of the documents said. “There is currently widespread skepticism about the industry’s commitment to this needed change.” Lobbying Congress The internal papers call for using regional securities firms, many of which have escaped notoriety in the financial crisis, to push the industry’s message with their local members of Congress. The plan notes that brokers across the country can also be used. “The foot power of the private client group has proven to be effective in blunting populist messages in the past,” said board member Paul Purcell, chief executive officer of Milwaukee investment firm Robert W. Baird & Co., according to the minutes of one meeting. To advise on the strategy, the trade group turned to a bipartisan roster of consultants. Such advice doesn’t come cheap and SIFMA is discussing dipping into its reserves to cover some of the costs, according to one memo. Michele Davis, Paulson’s former spokeswoman, and Jim Wilkinson, his former chief of staff, are among those leading the effort. SIFMA is paying their firm, Brunswick Group LLC, a monthly retainer of $70,000, the documents show. Both Davis and Wilkinson declined to comment. Paulson left office in January. Democratic Pollster Assisting them is a Democratic polling company, Brilliant Corners Research and Strategies, which is paid $5,000 a month. It is run by pollster Cornell Belcher, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaign. BKSH & Associates Worldwide, a lobbying firm chaired by Republican strategist Charlie Black, signed on for $10,000. In response to questions about the push for an image makeover, SIFMA President Timothy Ryan said the organization has taken a lead advocating for a federal systemic risk regulator and has pushed for increased government power to wind down financial firms that don’t own banks. He also touted the group’s recently issued recommendations on executive compensation. “This effort, which is not uncommon for a trade association, is designed to ensure our ideas for improved accountability, oversight and transparency are heard by the widest possible audience,” Ryan said.And if they want to be seen as the leader in pushing for 'transparency' when are they going to stop fighting Ron Paul/Bernie Sanders/Jim DeMint in trying to get the Federal Reserve audited under HR 1207 and S 604?And I thought this was interesting: http://seekingalpha.com/article/148262-austrian-school-of-economics-is-on-the-rise What do you think about this? more

Resolved Question: "You Can't Judge A Book By Its' Cover ? " Quiz #1.?

1.Which avant-garde guitarist maestro took lessons from Robin Trower? 2.Who played drums on "You Can't Always Get What You Want" off the Stones "Let It Bleed" (69) ? 3.What name does Jimmy Page use when guesting on the albums of Roy Harper? 4.Motorhead's "No Sleep Till Hammersmith" was recorded where? 5.A NYC noise merchant band once said of UK band Oasis that they really should be called Mirage. Who do you think? 6.What famous guitarist/composer had always aspired to be President of the USA? 7.What makes some dubious Anglo 'rawk' bands use 'um lauts' in their name? 8.The Ramones pinched "Gabba-Gabba-Hey" from Todd Browning's 1933 horror flick "Freaks"..But who did they rip "Hey-Ho,Let's Go!" from? 9.If Joe Strummer had different slogans stencilled on his 'outfits'..like Enlist Today,Coke,Eat At Joes,Kill All Hippies etc could he and his band have changed the way punks thought,and hence,History itself? 10.Who do you think would look better in an undertaker's top-hat?....Roger Waters or Thom Yorke? more

Resolved Question: Where is the change Obama promised and why is the left oblivious to his campaign that got him elected?

In the Seattle Times February 9, David Sirota's syndicated column exposes the lack of change in the new administration: "America was told that finally after years of yes-men running the government, we were getting a president who would follow Abraham Lincoln's load, fill his administration with varying viewpoints, and glean empirically sound policy from the clash of ideas. "Little did we know that the 'team of rivals' was what George Orwell calls 'Newspeak': an empty slogan. "Obama's national security team, for instance, includes not a single Iraq War opponent. The president has not only retained George W. Bush's defense secretary, Robert Gates, but also 150 other Bush Pentagon appointees. The only `rivalry' is between those who back increasing the already bloated defense budget by an absurd amount, and those who aim to boost it by a ludicrous amount. "Of course, that lock-step uniformity pales in comparison to the White House's economic team -- a squad of corporate lackeys disguised as public servants. "At the top is Lawrence Summers, the director of Obama's national economic council. As Bill Clinton's treasury secretary in the late 1990's Summers worked with his deputy, Tim Geithner (now Obama's treasury secretary) and Clinton's aide Rahm Emanuel (now Obama's chief of staff) to champion job-killing trade deals and deregulation that Obama Commerce Secretary Judd Gregg helped shepherd through Congress as a Republican senator." Some people call this economic package Obama boasts about as merely a way to force the taxpaying public to guarantee the financial industry's bad loans. No, this is definitely not the change that Obama's campaign boasted about, is it? No, indeed, it's the same people doing the same things, and the U.S. taxpayer footing the bill for failure. The February 10 front page of the New York Times revealed this headline: GEITHNER SAID TO HAVE PREVAILED ON THE BAILOUT Stephen Labaton and Edmund L. Andrews in their article datelined from Washington, D.C. explained: "The Obama administration's new plan to bail out the nation's banks was fashioned after a spirited debate that pitted the Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner against some of the president's top political hands. "In the end, Mr. Geithner largely prevailed in opposing tougher conditions on financial institutions that were sought by presidential aides, including David Axelrod, a senior adviser to the president, according to administration and congressional officials." What are some of the changes that Geithner wanted included? It will cost billions more! As Labaton and Andrews revealed: "It calls for the creation of a joint treasury and federal reserve program at an initial cost of $250 billion to $500 billion to encourage investors to acquire soured mortgage-related assets from banks. "It wants the Fed to use its balance sheet to provide the financing, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation might provide guarantees to investors who participate in the program. "A second component of the plan would broadly expand to $500 billion to $1 trillion, an existing $200 billion program run by the Federal Reserve to try to unfreeze the market for commercial, student, auto and credit cards." The big question to making these grandiose plans work is where is all this bailout cash coming from? China, we hear, is experiencing its own recession. We already owe China more than $1 trillion. China is cutting back in loans to the U.S. as it explains it needs money for China more than ever. To put people in top positions who sent our jobs away and reward bank chiefs who took huge bonuses and put the same colossal bank president failures back in power does seem unforgivable. America must remain strong so future generations will have the strength to pay off this gigantic national debt. President Obama, what on earth happened to all your glowing promises for change? more

Resolved Question: my very big problem in search engine optimization?

i recently develop blog name metacafe.rr.nu. the concept? its all about funniest pics and humorous photos and slogan, the result is overwhelming i achieve good SEO, but im having a doubt if google search is indexing my page on intrenational basis, heres the situation and im hoping that all SEO expert can notice my question, Situation: try to open google search engine then type this phrase "FUNNIEST BLOG" you will notice that the #1 position is the 2007 weblog awards 2nd is the netforbeginners web site and so on and so forth...heres my very big question and i want the answer so badly : What is the actual top 10 position of this "funniest blog-manunulat"? the actual adress is wwapak.blogspot. i just want to know the position of this blogspot account in U.S area, i want to satisfy that google indexing clearly define. and SEO of a site is not just being rank Locally.. tnx and more power. more

Resolved Question: Should President Obama be sued for deceptive advertising? Do you want a refund?

President Obama advertised himself to me as someone who would keep his word and was firm on his incredible campaign promises. In less than 10 days of being President, he has already broken a major promise. He promised: "lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." He's already appointed at least a dozen recent lobbyists to top positions such as: Attorney General Secretary of Agriculture Deputy Interior Secretary Deputy Health and Human Services and many more. See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/010... and http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/... His promises were delivered to me, the consumer, as dependable, reliable, trustworthy, and iron clad. In fact ethics and integrity were the product slogans that really sold people on his product (himself) that he was selling. Another case of deceptive advertising? Does anyone feelA better link hopefully http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18128.html more

Resolved Question: Should President Obama be sued for the con of "bait and switch"? I want a refund!?

President Obama advertised himself to me as someone who would keep his word and was firm on his incredible campaign promises. In less than 10 days of being President, he has already broken a major promise. He promised: "lobbyists won't find a job in my White House." He's already appointed at least a dozen recent lobbyists to top positions such as: Attorney General Secretary of Agriculture Deputy Interior Secretary Deputy Health and Human Services and many more. See: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18128.html and http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-01-28-lobby_N.htm?csp=34 His promises were delivered to me, the consumer, as dependable, reliable, trustworthy, and iron clad. In fact ethics and integrity were the product slogans that really sold people on his product (himself) that he was selling. Another case of deceptive advertising? more

Resolved Question: Softball T-Shirt Slogan?

i think a good t-shirt design for my softball team is a picture of a baseball in front a 10 or so softballs with the saying "no deny. bigger is better" over the top of the picture. is this a good design? more

Voting Question: Hey, I'm giving 10 points for doing exactly what my question requires...?

Simple. All you need to do is to get your post as the 10th post from the top. Get that done and you'll get 10 points*. No proof of purchase, slogans or photos required. * only if my question doesn;t get deleted.Actually, I've put YET another one up for 10 points to grab in the Pets>Reptiles section^^ more

Resolved Question: What's wrong with redistribution of wealth?

Take ur time to carefully analyze the next few statements. The statements are all true. You can research it yourself. Go look up wealth distribution! Top 1% of Americans possess more wealth than the combined bottom 90% of Americans. The Top 2-10% of Americans also possess more wealth than the combined bottom 90% of Americans. Therefore, the top 10% of Americans possess more than 67% of the nation's wealth. So what's wrong with raising taxes a little bit for the ridiculously super rich so that we can spend the extra $$ for bettering the country. Isn't the republican slogan "country first"? Do the top 1% of Americans really need that extra Bentley for their 16 yr old son? Do the top 1% of Americans really need to have their semi-annual renovation for their 7th house? Does Sarah Palin's baby really need to have Gucci bibs? Side question, who finds it ironic that McCain boasts about his foreign policy experience, but a heavy majority of other nations greatly support Obama rather than McCain? Does no one care that the top 1% of American's have more $$ than the bottom 90%? thats like if u have 100 people in a room and $100 dollars to split it amongst them... 1 person would hold $33.. 9 people would have $4 each... and the other 90 people would split the remaining $31.. And rich people aren't rich just because they work harder. Rich people are rich because of status. Middle class americans (50-70 percentile range) work full 40+ hours a week. Maybe they didnt have the $$ to get higher education when they were younger, but nonetheless, it doesn't mean they are lazy and work less than rich people. IF anything, the rich folk barely work a day in their lives. more

Resolved Question: Some British Strange Questions

What did Queen Victoria ban from her funeral? The colour black - instructing mourners to wear white. Even the weather obliged - the ground was covered with snow. How much money is made a day in the Bank of England and Royal Mint? The Bank of England produces £26,731,450 a day in banknotes. The Royal Mint is responsible for producing coins, and issues 4.1 million new coins per day. Where is the centre of England? A survey in 2002 by the Ordnance Survey pinpointed Lindley Hall Farm, near Fenny Drayton, Leics, as being at the centre of England. Historically, Meriden in the West Midlands claimed this title. Why isn't the Rotherhithe tunnel under the Thames in London straight? It was built with bends so that horses would not be able to see the light at the other end and bolt for the exit. ANIMAL WORLDI have been told that banana trees can walk - is this true? They can move up to 15 cm per year. This is because they have no central root, but lateral roots which grow and move towards the sun. What do you call a group of bears? A sleuth of bears. There are packs or routs of wolves and murders or storytellings of crows. Why does a swarm of midges not get knocked to the ground when it's raining? A falling raindrop creates a tiny pressure wave ahead of it as it falls. This wave pushes the midge sideways and the drop misses it. Scroll down for more... The difference between lettuce and humans is less than you might think If bees died out, what would be the result? All life on Earth would die within an estimated four years. Most food crops rely on bees to pollinate them, so if bees die out, so do humans. SHOWBIZWho was the original Pretty Woman? Roy Orbison's wife, Claudette. Asked once if she needed cash to go out, a friend said: "A pretty woman never needs any money." What name did Daryl Walters write under? Enid Blyton - best known for the Famous Five and Secret Seven series. She died in 1968 at the age of 71. Is it true that Paul McCartney stopped it raining at a concert? Yes. He hired three jets, at a cost of £28,000, to spray dry ice in the clouds above a concert at St Petersburg's Palace Square, thus preventing rain. What was unusual about the rain in the 1952 film Singing In The Rain? The rain was water mixed with milk. The crew did this so the raindrops and puddles would show up on film. What does "tardis" in Dr Who mean? The model of TARDIS is an obsolete Type 40 TT capsule. TARDIS stands for "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space". FOOD How many varieties does Heinz have? Henry Heinz adopted the slogan '57 Varieties' because he liked the numbers 5 and 7. Including divisions and subsidiaries, they actually have around 1,300. What is the name of the bumps on a raspberry? Druplets. The raspberry is not a berry but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets around a central core. HUMAN WORLDYou will produce 121 pints of this in your life - what is it? Tears. The average person will also eat 10,000 chocolate bars and have 7,163 baths. Is it true that women have twice as many pain receptors on their bodies than men? Yes. Women have (on average) 34 nerve fibres per square cm of facial skin compared with just 17 for men. Are there any countries in the world that don't have McDonald's fast-food restaurants? There are none in Greenland, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, most of the Middle East, Guyana, Papua New Guinea, Burma, Vietnam and most of Africa. After Neil Armstrong said "that's one small step for Man, one giant leap for mankind", what were his next words? He continued: "Yes, the surface is fine and powdery. I can kick it up loosely with my toe." Who made the first mobile phone call in Britain? Comedian Ernie Wise was chosen to make the call by mobile phone operator Vodafone on January 1, 1985. From the middle of London's St Katharine's Dock, he phoned Vodafone's headquarters at Newbury, Berks. Which are the top four biggest employers in the world in terms of staff? Walmart (2.4 million people), the Chinese Army (2.3 million), the Indian State Railways (1.5 million) and the NHS (1.4 million). Who was born in 1959 and couldn't bend her legs for the first six years of her life, has a brother called Todd and two sisters? Barbie, the famous doll, was "born" in 1959, couldn't bend her legs until 1965, has a brother called Todd, and no, she has five sisters. How much money will the average person in the UK spend in their lifetime? Men will spend £1,717,118 and women just £1,363,729. Of that, £286,311 goes to the taxman. What caused 73 accidents in Britain in 2002? Toothpaste tubes. Surprisingly, 823 accidents are caused by letters and envelopes. How many miles does the average woman walk in her lifetime while vacuumcleaning? 7,300 miles. Men only walk an average of 850 miles. SPORTWhat do John Lennon and Gary Lineker have in common? Both were given the middle name Winston - after Churchill. Lineker also shares a birthday with Churchill on November 30. WORDSWhat is the weirdest pub name? Poosie Nansie's in Ayrshire, but there are many: Sally Up Steps in Bolton; Donkey On Fire in Ramsgate; Oxnoble in Manchester; Who'd A Thowt It in Berkshire; Tafarn Sinc in Carmarthenshire, and the shortest - Q in Stalybridge. In rhyming slang, a Douglas Hurd is a third-class degree at university, and a Desmond Tutu is a 2:2, but what is a 2:1 in slang? In degree rhyming slang a 2:1 is known as Attila (the Hun) or Don (Juan). A 1st is Geoff (Hurst) or Damien (Hirst), while a 3rd is also known as a Thora (Hird). Why do people say "cobblers" when they believe something isn't true? The expression "cobblers", meaning nonsense or rubbish, derives from "cobbler's awls", Cockney rhyming slang for "balls". Why is New York the Big Apple? The name first appeared in the 1920s as horses were rewarded with apples on its many race tracks. A 1971 official tourism campaign first used the expression. Where does the term "purple patch" originate? The phrase, describing a period of success and good form, derives from Roman times, when only noblemen could afford purple dyes and cloth. WORLD TRIVIAWhere is Europe's largest roundabout? The Arc de Triomphe in Paris - which is the meeting point of 12 avenues. No vehicle insurance policy is valid on it. How long would it take to walk to China and back? The distance London-Beijing is 5,070 miles, so it's a 10,140-mile round trip. Walking speed 4mph; 2,535 hours' walking time; eight hours' walking per day: 316.8 days. What is the most expensive liquid in the world? Scorpion venom - used in medical research and which costs £1,038 for a 0.2ml sample (that's £5,302,725 per litre). AND FINALLYGive me three statistics that will wow my friends. • 76 people die each year playing Twister. • Linda McCartney sold more veggie meals than husband Paul sold records. • Humans share a third of their DNA with lettuce  more

Resolved Question: Which phrases used constantly during the 2008 Presidential Campaign would you like to see disappear forever?

I can think of a few: 1). Neo-con. 2). Race-baiting/racist/racism. 3). Throw [blank] under the bus. 4). Flip-flop. 5). Spin & PR. 6). Amnesty. 7). Anything have to do with "Change." 8). "Faux News" or any other denigrating term for FOX, CNN etc. 9). Republicon, DemocRAT, Republicrat, or any other denigrating term for any political parties. 10). Hitlery, McSame, McLame, or any other attempt at clever wordplays on candidates' names. These are just the top 10 I can think of right now. I will be sure to add to the list if I think of more, but I am interested in which political buzzwords, slogans, and other meaningless crap YOU think should be banned from all conversation permaneantly due to misuse, abuse, overuse or a combination of all three. 10 pts for the best answer!Thanks "Hero of the Stupid!" I am also adding the following to my list. 11). Cut and run 12). Surge. 13). Timetables for Withdrawal more

Resolved Question: Pop & Rock Trivia # 1?.?

1.Jimmy Page played what instrument on this Cliff Richard disc ("Time Drags By") in 1966? 2.Radiohead's "Creep" was under a threatened lawsuit until Tom Yorke conceded the song shared 'common elements' with what Top 40 hit by The Hollies? 3.Iggy Pop was great as Uncle Belvedere Rickettes in John Waters' "Cry Baby" (1990). But he outdid himself in Jim Jarmusch's Neil Young-soundtracked film,"Dead Man". In what respect? 4.Heaven 17,the electro-funk outfit from the UK eg."Penthouse & Pavement" took their name from a very famous novel.What was it? 5.What slogan did Joe Strummer constantly have on his guitar? 6.The Sonics had a classic single that belongs on any juke-box.What's the song called? 7.Neil Young has a hobby..sounds indecent,but not here..What is it? 8.What was so unusual about The Flaming Lips' 1997 release "Zaireeka?" 9.Something easy.What was the flip-side to The Beatles' "Paperback Writer?" 10.Spirit's tune "Taurus" is famous for what? Hint:Pagey. more

Resolved Question: Needed: feminine outfits for my holiday this summer :/ .... help?

Hey. Ok, so I usually just wear jeans, t-shirt with funny slogan or cute print, vans/converse and a hoody. I don't exactly fit any category, but I'm more indie/skater than chav (get called 'emo' when I go out ¬ ¬) Problem is I'm going on holiday to Italy and I have to look smart apparently, and I have no clue what to wear - I'm shy about picking outfits cos I usually go for dull stuff, or the same kind of outfit every time. So I really need some help. Atm I have medium brown hair, just above my shoulders (but going to be dying it back to a burgundy-purple/red colour soon). I'm a size 8 bottoms, 10 top, and my best features are (imo) my legs. Can you design some outfits I could take on holiday, e.g. daytime casual and smart (not posh) evening outfits? Gotta be UK stores, not chavvy (please!!) and pref not too expensive. Thank you!! 10 points for best outfits :)Oh, and it's going to be hot :D more

Resolved Question: NEEDED: outfits for my holiday this summer :/ ... help?

Hey. Ok, so I usually just wear jeans, t-shirt with funny slogan or cute print, vans/converse and a hoody. I don't exactly fit any category, but I'm more indie/skater than chav. Definately. Problem is I'm going on holiday to Italy and I have to look smart apparently, and I have no clue what to wear - I'm shy about picking outfits myself, I go for dull stuff. So I need some help :) Atm I have medium brown hair (but going to be dying it back to a burgundy-purple/red colour soon). I'm a size 8 bottoms, 10 top, and my best features are (imo) my legs. Can you design some outfits I could take on holiday? Gotta be UK stores, not chavvy (please!!) and pref not too expensive. Thankies =D more

Resolved Question: top ten rejected slogans for Ford?

10. "where quality is job...what, maybe 5..or 6" 9. "you might be a big class-action winner!" 8. "ford: because life is too predictable" 7. "our cars are built with love because our assembly-line workers enjoy unlimited cocktails" 6. "one out of every 50 glove compartments contains an abandoned newborn!" 5. "turn the key; cross your fingers" 4. "they may be fiery death traps, but they're American-made fiery death traps!" 3. "if you have a better idea, could you send it to us?" 2. "you know how they say you should live every day as if it's your last?" 1. "wouldn't you rather take the bus?"no offense to Ford, I happen to like Ford..i got this from my friend. more

Resolved Question: Top ten Hillary Clinton Campaign Slogans?

10. The betch is back 9. Clintons are forever. 8. Your long national nightmare is not over. 7. It's mourning again in America. 6. Reach out and tax someone. 5. For that hard-to-reach income. 4. Have it her way. 3. Help eradicate capitalism in our lifetime. 2. Likeability isn't everything. 1. President Clinton 2 : "this time with pants."i am not in favor of any presidential candidate...this is only a JOKE...read what it says carefully and not meant to be taken seriously. more

Resolved Question: rev kamal karna roy a newer politician in strategic redevelopment _ changes to evade "jungle democracy"?

Click here to join the NEWSWEEK community, post comments and subscribe to our e-mail newsletters User Name: Password: Forgot password? News Politics Tech and Business Culture Health Voices Quick Guide Periscope National News International Next 2008 Iraq War Issues 2008 Against the Odds Video Top Story Campaign 2008: A Game of Survivor My Journey to the Top Latest News Clinton hints at shared ticket PAKISTAN Elections Usher in a New Face By Zahid Hussain, Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh | NEWSWEEK Mar 3, 2008 Issue « Return to Article Related:Makhdoom Amin Fahim Pakistan Peoples Party Pervez Musharraf Discuss Comments: Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN @ 03/03/2008 10:05:01 PM Comment: TRIANGLE OF JUNGLE DEMOCRACIES USA TO PAISTAN TO RSSIA UJDER PUTIN TO USA. JUNGLES ARE DEEP FOREST BUT GREENS ARE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT OF SHADE. OTHER JUGLES ARE DEEPLY OF CONCERN TO PEOPLE. bUT WE THE PEOPLE MUST BRING TO EQUITY IN JUSTICE,LEADERSHIP AND OPTIMUM PRIVILEGES TO MOST SOONER THE BETTER, SAID DR THE REVEREND KAMAL KARNA ROY , A MR CLEAN FOR U S PRESIDECY 2008 AS SCHEDULED, BUT MAY NOT BE HELD WITH U S DISTRICT COURT INTERVENTIONS AS PROVIDED IN U S CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS OF U S. REPORTED BY REV MR PREMANGHU ROY DAS EFORMS AGENT IN DEMOCRACIES WORLD WIDE IN NEED OF REDELOPMENT. SEE BELOW WE NEED TRUE DEMOCRATIC CONDITIONS FOR WE THE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. Posted By: shaista @ 03/01/2008 5:36:46 AM Comment: THE lunch hosted by Mr Asif Zardari for the newly elected members of the three leading parties on Feb 27 may well be remembered as a landmark in the long awaited transition to a democratic dispensation in Pakistan. The squalls that rocked the state on Oct 12, 1999 and in the form of the 17th amendment inflicted much damage. Then, the catastrophe of Nov 3 put all salvaging efforts beyond the capacity of any single party. The existing distortions in that historic but half-alive Constitution present a nightmare and demand the exercise of the highest form of political wisdom and legal expertise. The process of eliminating them by creating a new interface between politics and law has just begun. Pakistan???s present crisis is characterised by the bitter harvest of constitutional violations, growing imbalance between a power-hungry centre and the handicapped federating units, uncontrollable violence by ever-proliferating bands of extremists and, above all, by a rapidly rising table of sub-surface social anger at glaring inequalities of income and opportunity. A reasonably broad-based coalition government may provide a healing touch. There is no great virtue in a two-party system anymore as, for quite some time to come, regional aspirations will deepen particular identities of the constitutive elements of a diverse nation. The greatest achievement of the three top leaders present at Mr Zardari???s lunch is that they successfully persuaded their followers that these identities were perfectly compatible with an overarching national identity. Scratch the surface and lurking just beneath the protest against the humiliation of the higher judiciary and repeated violations of the Constitution is a palpable anguish of poverty and deprivation. Pakistan must eschew politics of vendetta but that does not mean that every crime against the state and society be brushed under the carpet. It needs a high-powered Commission on Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in the interest of historical accuracy and to build dykes for future security. We need to replace mercenary relations with relations based on mutual respect, community of interests and coordinated pursuit of common objectives within our respective national parameters. A strong and stable national coalition can be built around the present understanding between the PPP, PML-N and ANP. The US-led West should welcome it and not undermine it as it alone can make Pakistan???s battle against militant extremists effective The west should to withdraw their support from the one Musharaf who loathed by the people at maximum Posted By: shaista @ 03/01/2008 5:07:40 AM Comment: THE results of the election that took place on Feb 18 were astonishing. President Musharraf???s supporting party Pakistan Muslim League (Q) was wiped out and the ministers who were lucky enough to keep their seats are now at a safe distance from President Musharraf. The people at large want the president to go with no other choice. However, the US has been unduly interfering in our politics as its Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher has emphasised the need to continue President Musharraf???s rule. Pakistan has remained under military rule for more than half of its life, and the people no longer want any dictator to rule over them. As the PPP has secured the maximum number of seats, followed by the PML (N), the ties made between these parties also pose a serious challenge to the president???s stay any further in office. His rule for eight long years has brought many hardships to the nation and now he should quit The US slogan for democracy is and justice is just a slogan and in real and practicle not willing to be so for their own agenda From whome to expect the justice and democracy in the world the only power it self violate This is not the Musharaf pakistan but of 1,600/-Millions people and what they think of the rest This is not in the benifit of US to support the cruel one of the country who now the people think as Mechile G.Choaf The people and the young generation have very strong anti US sentiments due to their blind support of Dictator Musharaf This is not a good sign and this will increase with passage of time Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/29/2008 2:12:44 AM Comment: IN THIS ENVIORNMENT OF ECONOMIC FEUDALISM WHERE THE MIDDLE CLASS MUST SUFFER IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE pROFITS OF MULTINATIONAL CORpORATIONS, WHO BENEFIT FROM CHEAp LABOR, THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS BEEN LOST. MULTINALTIONALS FROM INDIA HAVE BROUGHT THEIR CHEAp WAyS TO AMERICA. WE NOW HAVE AMERIANS GOING TO GET HEART SURGERy IN INDIA BEAUSE IT IS CHEApER. OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLy JOBS HAVE BEEN OUTSOURCED TO INDIA. CHINA WAITS UNTIL WE INVENT IT AND THEN THEy STEAL IT. WHy REINVENT THE WHEEL. ARABS FINANCIERS OWN OVER TWELVER pER CENT OF OUR ECONOMy AND IN RECENT MONTTHS HAVE "BAILED" OUT OUR BANKS. IN ADDITION, ARAB INTEREST FROM DUBAI AND KUWAIT HAVE FINANCED OUR pOLITICAL LEADERS ENDEVOURS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE pOLITICAL SpECTRUM.. IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE. We have been fooled by our own government and there is no way any Republican is going to win this election. THE Middle class has had it with all this Bin LADEN terrorist crap. WE are now scared of our own government more than we are of the terrorist because the decisions this government is making on our behalf is not in our best interests and it is killing us. The government is now dominating our civil liberties. They are giving the states millions for Real ID Cards. This is just the start of government intrusion. Combine this with the misuse of the Patriot Act and the future Plans of insurance comPanies and corporations to have full access to our personal records and we have a real crisis. Credit Card companies have already started selling and sharing our personal information with the private sector. We really have to wake up and protect our constitution it is all we have to defend ourselves against interests that become too rich and powerful in this country. The government keeps expanding and is being predominantly controlled by special interest and lobbyist. The middle class is being weakened and our civil liberties are being threatened. Real ID Cards will not make "us safer" infacat terrorists can obtain fake ones and move about freely. The American people did not vote on Real ID Cards, we need a vote. Our constitution would have to be ammended in order for Real ID's to become legal. I do not know what has happened in Washington but it is getting out of hand. They know what they are doing is unconstitutional so they are trying to bribe the states by offering them money. I hope every state agrees with me and Prevents the federal govenment from imPosing THIS unconstitutional law. If the states allow the government to do this then they would have set a bad Precedent that could lead to further government violations. WHy IS THERE A NEED TO WIRE TAp EVERy CITIZEN. ARE yOU KIDDING ME. yOU NEED A WARRANT. THIS IS MADNESS. GOVERNMENT IS USING TERRORISM AS AN EXCUSE TO INTRUDE ON OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES. THIS IS INSANE. McCain will continue to implementt these misguided REpublian policies. McCain's ONE HUNDRED year agenda is not in AMERICA"s BEST INTEREST. Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/28/2008 4:32:34 AM Comment: AND WHAT AN UGLy FACE IT IS. WE NEED TO CRUSH AL QUEDA IN PAKISTAN AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE. LET US REMEMBER BERG. I AM NOT JEWISH, HOWEVER I FEEL THAT WE MUST NEVER FORGET. IT IS WORTH THAT yOUNG ARABS AND JEWS FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS START FORMING GROUPS THAT ENCOURAGE THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JEWS ARABS MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. SOMETHING LIKE AN NGO. ANyONE FROM ANy BACKGROUND CAN CAN CONTRIBUTE. WITH ONE OBJECTIVE IN MIND. FRIENDLy RELATIONS. NO PRESSURE TO SET FOREIGN POLICy , JUST GETTING THE TWO ADVERSARIES IN THE SAME ROOM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WILL BE IN AMERICA'S AND THE WORLD'S BEST INTEREST. . THAT IS THE FIRST STEP . WHEN yOU TRy AND IMPOSE yOUR WILL "ALL OF A SUDDEN" ON THE MASSES, THEN ASSAASSINATIONS LIKE THOSOE OF RABIN AND BHUTTO WILL BE INEVITABLE. "WHEN ANy ONE INDIVIDUAL BEOMES LARGER THAN THE CAUSE THEy ARE CHAMPIONING THEN THEy THEMSELVES BECOME AN OBSTALE TO THEIR OWN CAUSE" EDDIWHERE 2008. EDDIEWHERE © 2008 Posted By: VoteResponsibly08 @ 02/27/2008 4:45:32 PM Comment: What is Obama going to do when he faces these people??? God Help us all..He does not have the know how and depending on advisers 100% is not my idea of a commander and chief! Do something! media, Press...you have given obama a Free Pass long enough! Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN @ 02/27/2008 4:27:53 PM Comment: democracies in usa and pakistan, both are in jeopardy in respect of we the people of the nations, superpower or allied nation.both entities must detour to achieve people's wishes entertained. for dr kamal karna roy a small time democratic strategist in efforts to revive themes of equities for all.released by an assistant to dr roy identified by e mail id 2.27. 2008 new york Posted By: Houlbelat @ 02/27/2008 11:16:25 AM Comment: Is it a democracy reborn in Pakistan or sham of the highest order? People in Pakistan voted in favor of Bhutto's party, not for Zardari, who was responsible for her twice ouster from the Premiership due to his shameful dirty roles of Mr.10%. Country's biggest grass root party preaching "Government of the People, by the People, for the People", which was founded on the basic principle of providing them respectable " Bread, Dress and Shelter", was created by Bhutto, hanged by a military dictator. Now, the party is orphaned in a bomb-blast death of his daughter during another military rule. Situation brings forth her rootless spouse, "Mr.Tenpercent Zardari", holding the People's mandate ( at ransom?), for endless exploits. Whatever the words mean, they cannot change the genes. The name "Zardari" literally means "Gold-Lord" and he lives his name literally. He was responsible for legislating and monopolizing gold import into Pakistan (through an Emirates based gold-tycoon of Pakistan origin) on a ridiculous 2% custom duty and made unfathomable ocean of fortune. If the US administration is ready," to let them have their rounds of discussions, still expecting the [Pakistani] Army to take the necessary military action, counting on an interesting transition", then the whole riddle is solved. The ongoing change in Pakistan is not a change of " act" in the drama being staged but, a "change of gear into a powerful all terrain drive", to move forward on the designed road-map, crossing effectively all rugged and bogging tracts en-route. Posted By: engal @ 02/27/2008 3:08:04 AM Comment: Comment:Chinese's a Literature of the YanYuHongChen is very reality for the economy,the Culture,the Education,the Politice ,the Philosophy and the Business,but i expecting who the Leaders in International that will be the best support us and it will be Might spread you and the Literature to the Golabl.' chengchengcheng123@yahoo.cn Posted By: CANDIDATE_REPUBLICAN @ 02/26/2008 3:06:30 PM Comment: Pakistan's elected leaders must be slow and very effective in democratic gains or the gains couod be reversed by internal forcesalien to ruling coalition in jeopady with foreign interests. jungle democracies have been most powerful mvirus which curbs democratic rights of citizens, that is what history tells us. see also below as relevant. the reverend dr kamal karna karuna roy author of electronic and hard copies publications which may give insights to living beings as known as human_animals may often behave in pure animal conducts to support their polluted rational feelings. interests, vested interests etc etc. rationality vs animality is the tug of war type emements of the living beings all over the Globe: Pakistan leaders be careful in your step ahead. as the powerfuls, nations, superpower or most entities give priorities to their own hidden agendas. native leaders could be in a privileged position to judge events those may cause them favor or pains: pl see below; dreams of freedom for people individual or national may not award any grants from external forces or native rulers, but steadfast demand and actions if orchestrated with pragmatic resolutions may succeed in demands of true liberty of coexistence. quotation from democratic strategist *** republican candidate U s presidential electoral competition 2008 by the rev ms lisa n r alston. 2.26. 2008 new york. Posted By: SAM08 @ 02/26/2008 11:50:41 AM Comment: The people in pakistan should have asked Zardari before woting for him if his going rate of kick backs will still be 15% or will it be more Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/25/2008 8:42:42 AM Comment: AND WHAT AN UGLy FACE IT IS. WE NEED TO CRUSH AL QUEA IN PAKISTAN AND GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE. Posted By: shaista @ 02/25/2008 5:19:05 AM Comment: The newly retired General Musharraf has displayed no intention of leaving office despite his king party losing even after plenty of evidence that he had planned to rig the elections. The caretaker government was anything but neutral and the Election Commission was suspect. But pressure from Washington compelled him to change his plans. Had he still engaged in massive rigging, not only would he have drawn Washington???s ire but also evoked ugly street protests. He knew that if the ???agitators??? caused the country to come to a standstill, the army would distance itself from him. Without their protection, he would not last a day in office. The habitual offender Musharaf this time fail for not carrying out a full pleadge crime of rigging due to international observer existing These people will never be convinced that it is time for the ex-general to go. To them, he is the embodiment of truth, the doer of all good things, and the prince of enlightened moderation without whom Pakistan would return to the Dark Ages. It is time for Musharraf, to wake up and realise that the game is over. Everything Musharraf stood for was repudiated on Feb 18. The electoral results have made it clear, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the people do not wish to see Musharraf holding court on radio and television day in and day out. Aitzaz Ahsan spoke for millions when he said, ???Musharraf is the most hated & loathed man in Pakistan.??? During the last several months, poll after poll showed Musharraf???s popularity plummeting like a lead coin in a bottomless well. But he continued to reject the polls by saying that they only represented the views of a few thousand people and asserted vainly that he was vastly popular in the populous countryside. But even the King???s party was not taken in by the myths spun out by the monarch. It knew that once rigging was no longer an option, its fate was sealed. Why else would they seek to obtain the release of one of the key instigators of the Lal Masjid takeover, Abdul Aziz, just days prior to the vote? This was an obvious ploy designed to play on the religious sympathies of the people and to garner much needed votes. How else could one justify releasing a real and confirmed terrorist from jail while holding the nation???s eminent justices and barristers under house arrest? Musharraf had said not too long ago that he would step down when he saw that the people were no longer with him. He said he was continuing as president only because it was in the national interest. He would rather be playing golf or tennis, he noted, but the situation required him to sacrifice his personal interests. Well, the time has now come for him to do the nation a favour and quit as he is the only evil for this country. Posted By: democratic_reforms @ 02/24/2008 11:12:22 AM Comment: JUNGLE DEMOCRACY IN PAKISTAN. NO PAKISTANI PREMIER SHOULD ENGAGE IN DIRECT FIGHT WITH PERVEZ MASSAREF TO ENGAGE PAKISTAN AGAIN N VIOLENCES, AND/OR EMMERGENCY. tHIS IS BECAUSE MUSSAREF IS NOT ALONE BUT HE HAS SUPPORT FROM INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POWERBLOCS. A SLOWER APPROACH TO DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION IN PAKISTAN MAY BE MORECORRECT FOR THE TIME SCALES. THE REV DR KAMAL KARNA K ROY, A US AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL _ REPUBLICAN HOPEFUL, NEW YORK 2.24.2008 Posted By: Mohdsheikh @ 02/24/2008 12:49:45 AM Comment: Washington's top ranks seem unworried about what the new civilian leaders might decide. The only worry Americans have about the moment to keep up Musharraf in Presidency because Musharraf has amended the constitution in such a way no one else can do any thing without his consent and authority. This is worrisome for the new elected politicians. They know very much the hard fact that they have not been elected on merits, it is the hatred against Musharraf they have en-cashed. Because Musharraf have destroyed the true democrative spirit of the Pakistan???s Constitution by extremely autocratic and extra constitutional way before conducting the general election so that he could do the post election rigging. If those powers are not taken away from the presidency then the politicians will be nothing more than tools in his hands. If the politicians failed to restore highest court judges that will mean they are empty handed. Moreover they won???t be able to face their voters who have sent them Islamabad to clean up the mess and deliver good to them. Mohammad S Sheikh, Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan Islamabad - Rawalpindi Posted By: Martin123 @ 02/24/2008 12:08:02 AM Comment: My salutations to Dr. Rice for a job well done on the American side. Posted By: Martin123 @ 02/24/2008 12:07:07 AM Comment: Hats off to Ms Rice, never in the history of public service t America has so much been freely given. SPONSORED LINKS Pakistani Dating Site 1000's Pakistani's Chatting Join Free! SalaamLove.com Singapore Air to Pakistan Deluxe Flights to Pakistan Best Fare Guarantee! Book A Flight. www.SingaporeAir.com 6.9¢ to Pakistan Long Distance from Cell & Home no PIN, no monthly fee - Try Today www.startec.com/Pakistan Reply Comments: Enter Your Comment Report Abuse Enter comments if any for reporting abuse Comments: Report Abuse Project Green Enterprise Leadership Boomer Files Giving Globally CES Coverage Education INNOVATION Not Made In Japan Christian Caryl Once upon a time, the country was a leader in technology. 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Resolved Question: Top Ten U.N. Slogans? kind of funny, what do you think?

10. If an impotent, bloated, bureaucracy can't solve it, then it's best left festering. 9. You can't spell "unethical" without U.N. 8. Genocidial dictators, beware our non-binding resolutions. 7. Bringing peace to our world. (actual result may vary.) 6. Tomorrow's corruption today. 5. Raising pointles squabling to an art form. 4. We takes bribes so you do't have to. 3. Try our world famous cheesy fries. 2. If troubles abound, we'll be early doing nothing. 1. If this is an emergency, hang up and dial America. more

Resolved Question: Would you fly Badair?

The Top Twenty Flight Advertising Slogans 1. BadAir: When you just can't wait for the world to come to you. 2. BadAir: We're Amtrak with wings. 3. Join our frequent near-miss program. 4. On flights, every section is a smoking section. 5. Ask about our out-of-court settlements. 6. Our staff has had lots of experience counseling next-of-kin. 7. Are our jet engines too noisy? Don't worry. We'll turn them off. 8. Complimentary champagne during free-fall. 9. Enjoy the in-flight movie in the plane next to you. 10. The kids will love our inflatable slides. 11. If you think it's so easy, get your own plane! 12. Which will fall faster, our stock price or our planes? 13. Our pilots are all terminally ill and have nothing to lose. 14. BadAir: We may be landing on your street. 15. BadAir: Terrorists are afraid to fly with us. 16. Bring a bathing suit. 17. Some airlines are content to fly thousands of feet over landmarks. We try to get as close as possible for the best view. 18. That guy who crashed into the White House was one of our best pilots. 19. Fly BadAir and enjoy a free two-week hospital stay on us. 20. BadAir: A real man lands where he wants to. more

Resolved Question: recognize any of these ad slogans?

I am doing a project on ad slogans. I am finding multiple companies for the same slogans and some of them I am not finding at all. If there's any that you recognize off of the top of your head, just give me the # that I typed next to it and what company the slogan belongs to. I have already tried search engines. Please do not reply "No" :-) Thanks. 1)#1 in the #2 business 2)Make your change for good 3)When life calls for steak 4)Life elevated. 5)Love your heart. 6)We're here to help 7)Made just for you 8) It's all about getting there 9)It's time to expect more 10)Collaborate>Create>Succeed 11)Milk's favorite cookie. 12)For all the ways you care 13) Fight for the bright 14) Almost too good to be true 15) Shrink it 16) We can save you 17) Getting better all the time 18) Let's get it done 19) Feed your wild side 20) Stay in the game 21) Hunt like you mean it22)Drive beautiful. 23)Save money. Live better. 24) Live life loud. 25) A good reason to smile. more

Resolved Question: This is too funny for me to ignore?

From Letterman, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2005 Top 10 Slogans for the New Gay Beer. 10. For guys who don't like Busch. 9. Cold as a mountain stream, gay as a picnic basket! 8. For all the gay stuff you do, this beer's for you. 7. Made with the finest gay hops and barley. 6. Toss one back, and while you're at it, have a beer. 5. The perfect drink for spending the afternoon watching 'Trading Spaces' with the guys. 4. Come out of the closet and head for the (Brokeback) mountains. 3. Wreck your liver and your marriage! 2. Drink until you can see "straight." 1. The Queen of beers.BlueSea, not everybody is glued to the TV every night. more

Resolved Question: Top ten signs you bought a bad computer.... KNOW ANY MORE???

10. Lower corner of screen has the words "Etch-a-sketch" on it. 9. It's celebrity spokesman is that "Hey Vern!" guy. 8. In order to start it, you need some jumper cables and a friend's car. 7. It's slogan is "Pentium: redefining mathematics". 6. The "quick reference" manual is 120 pages long. 5. Whenever you turn it on, all the dogs in your neighborhood start howling. 4. The screen often displays the message, "Ain't it break time yet?" 3. The manual contains only one sentence: "Good Luck!" 2. The only chip inside is a Dorito. 1. You've decided that your computer is an excellent addition to your fabulous paperweight collection. **10 pts for the funniest... decided by you...ok?***AGAIN...these are JUST examples for your entertainment!!! I am using my points to put them down... so no complaints, eh??? It is just fun!!! If you are miserable and feel I've broken GUIDELINES...Report ME!! Don't moan? Or put a 'full-stop'down...and collect ur 2 pts!!?? Good Luck more

Resolved Question: it's too good to not laugh.......haha?

It's Good To Laugh..... The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called A spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly Stressful week. (This is one pretty sharp boss!) When everyone gathered, the Boss, who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt out staff The purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The theme: Viagra advertising slogans. The only rule Was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products That captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable. About 7 minutes later, they turned in their Suggestions and created a Top 10 List. With all the laughter and camaraderie, The rest of the week went very well for everyone! The top 10 were: 10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up! 9. Viagra, The quicker pecker picker upper. 8. Viagra, like a rock! 7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be There overnight. 6. Viagra, Be all that you can be. 5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone. 4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, But made for a woman. 3. Viagra, Home of the whopper! 2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life! And the unanimous number one slogan: 1. Viagra, This is your peepee. This is your peepee on drugs. more

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I already own a taxicab company. The problem? I named it Budget Cab ( the cabs are lime green/white) and I guaranteed everybody that my prices/rates would always be below my competition, and with a name like budget, I'm kind of locked in there! I have decided to start a second cab company and still run my existing cab company.) These cabs will be Black. The windows will be tinted black. The light on top will be black. The only part on the top light that will light up is the word Taxi. ( kind of like a cab from England) My new cabs will not be overpriced by any means, but they will be slightly higher as they will be more luxurious. Leather, DVD. I NEED YOUR HELP WITH 4 THINGS: (1) What should I name the company? One word: _____________ Cab Co. (2) What should my slogan be? (3) What color lettering on the doors?: white?, gray? other? (4) What style lettering should I use? example: Old english? Other? Thanks! 10 points for the best AnswerThe city my cab service is located in is West Des Moines. The wealthiest city in Iowa. more

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Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. Global impact McDonald's has become emblematic of globalization, sometimes referred as the "McDonaldization" of society. The Economist magazine uses the "Big Mac Index": the comparison of a Big Mac's cost in various world currencies can be used to informally judge these currencies' purchasing power parity. Because McDonald's is closely identified with American culture and lifestyle, its international business expansion has been termed[by who?] part of Americanization and American cultural imperialism. McDonald's is a perpetual target of various and often conflicting anti-globalization protests worldwide. The brand is known informally as "Mickey D's" (in the US and Canada), "Macky D's" (in the UK), "McDo" (in France, Quebec, the Philippines, and the Kansai region of Japan), "Maccer's" (in Ireland), "Maccas" (in New Zealand and Australia) or "de Mac" (in the Netherlands). Thomas Friedman once said that no country with a McDonald's had gone to war with another.[8] However, the "Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention" is not strictly true. Careful historians point to the 1989 United States invasion of Panama, when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999, and the 2006 Lebanon War as exceptions. Some observers have suggested that the company should be given credit for increasing the standard of service in markets that it enters. A group of anthropologists in a study entitled Golden Arches East (Stanford University Press, 1998, edited by James L. Watson) looked at the impact McDonald's had on East Asia, and Hong Kong in particular. When it opened in Hong Kong in 1975, McDonald's was the first restaurant to consistently offer clean restrooms, driving customers to demand the same of other restaurants and institutions. In East Asia in particular, McDonald's have become a symbol for the desire to embrace Western cultural norms. McDonald's have recently taken to partnering up with Sinopec, China's second largest oil company, in the People's Republic of China, as it begins to take advantage of China's growing use of personal vehicles by opening numerous drive-thru restaurants. [9] In addition to its effect on business standards, McDonald's has also been instrumental in changing local customs. By popularizing the idea of a quick restaurant meal, Watson's study suggests, McDonald's led to the easing or elimination of various taboos, such as eating while walking in Japan.[dubious – discuss] CriticismPotted plants at a McDonald's. The company has been a target of criticism practically since its inception. Since the mid-1990s this protest has taken the form of an anti-globalization movement as documented in Naomi Klein's manifesto No Logo. McDonald's restaurants have been the targets of protests, peaceful and otherwise, by environmental, anti-globalization and animal rights activists. The company has used a litigious approach to protecting its business interests. This conflict, and the company's approach to resolving it, was epitomized in the early 1990s by what came to be known as the McLibel case. Two British activists, David Morris and Helen Steel, distributed leaflets entitled What's wrong with McDonald's? on the streets of London. McDonald's wrote to Steel and Morris demanding they desist and apologize, and, when they refused, sued them for libel. The trial lasted more than two years. The company's advertising techniques and business practices were scrutinized in the High Court of Justice in London and reported extensively in the press, who saw the case as a David and Goliath battle (under UK law, legal aid could not be granted for a defamation suit, so Steel and Morris did most of their own legal casework while McDonald's was represented by an extensive legal team). In June 1997, the judge ruled in favor of McDonald's, awarding the company £60,000 damages, which was later reduced to £40,000 by the Court of Appeal. The amount was low because the judge ruled that some of the claims made by Morris and Steel had been proved, including that McDonald's exploited children in its advertising, was anti-trade union and indirectly exploited and caused suffering to animals. Steel and Morris announced they had no intention of ever paying, and the company later confirmed it would not be pursuing the money. Steel and Morris later successfully challenged UK libel law in the European Court, arguing that it was an infringement of the right to free speech. The British Government was forced to re-write the legislation as a result. In 2005, a film by Ken Loach was made about the court case. In 2001, Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation included criticism of McDonald's' business practices. Among the critiques are allegations that McDonald's (along with other companies within the fast-food industry) uses its political influence to increase their own profits at the expense of people's health and the social conditions of its workers. The book also brings into question McDonald's advertisement techniques where it targets children. While the book does mention other fast-food chains, it focuses primarily on McDonald's. In 2002, vegetarian groups, largely Hindu, successfully sued McDonald's for misrepresenting their French fries as vegetarian.[10] Even after the discontinuation of frying the French fries in beef tallow in 1990, the French fries still had beef extract added to them. The French fries sold in the U.S. still contain beef and animal flavoring. McDonald's biscuits also contain beef flavoring along with animal flavoring. Also in 2004, Morgan Spurlock's documentary film Super Size Me said that McDonald's food was contributing to the epidemic of obesity in society, and failing to provide nutritional information about its food for its customers. For 30 days Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's (supersizing whenever asked). He ate everything on the menu at least once and continued to eat after he was full. At the same time he consciously attempted to get little or no exercise. By the end of the month he had gained 24.5 pounds (11.11 kg), was moody and had less interest in sex. Others have disputed Spurlock's claims (see below). After the film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, but before its cinematic release, McDonald's stated it was phasing out its Supersize meal option and would begin offering several healthier menu items, though no link to the film was cited in this decision. However, while the healthier menu items have appeared, the Supersize meal option still remains available at some locations. The company also began a practice of putting nutritional information for all menu items in light grey small print on the reverse of their tray liners. It is currently phasing in nutritional labeling in clear black print on the actual packaging of its food items. Anthony Bourdain on his show, No Reservations, has criticised McDonald's among other fast-food restaurants for its culinary blandness. Legal challenge over trans fats In September 2002, McDonald’s announced it was voluntarily reducing the trans fat content of its cooking oil by February 2003. Because of operational problems, the oil was not changed on time. In the ensuing lawsuits, plaintiffs claimed that McDonald’s didn't do enough to inform the public that the oil was not changed. The bantransfat.com website contains testimonials from people, one claims she thought the oil was low in trans fat, and she said, "that is why I have been eating there every week..." In a settlement agreement, bantransfat.com said "While there is a difference of opinion regarding whether McDonald’s gave effective notice to its customers that the oil was not changed, McDonald’s deserves recognition and credit for having achieved a reduction in the trans fat levels ... and for working diligently over the last two years to test additional cooking oils." Nevertheless, bantransfat.com demanded monetary damages. Settlement of the lawsuit brought by BanTransFats.com and one private party requires McDonald’s spend up to $1.5 million to publish notices on the status of its trans fat initiative. McDonald’s will also donate $7 million to the American Heart Association for public education about trans fat. [3]. The settlement also requires some money be paid directly to bantransfat.com. The California Superior Court for Marin County has entered an order preliminarily approving the settlement. Supporters of McDonald's point out that the company is successful because it meets the needs of customers and adapts to its customers wants. In response to public pressure, McDonald's has sought to include more healthy choices in its menu and has introduced a new slogan to its recruitment posters: "Not bad for a McJob". (The word McJob, first attested in the mid-1980s[11] and later popularized by Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X, has become a buzz word for low-paid, unskilled work with few prospects or benefits and little security.) McDonald's disputes the idea that its restaurant jobs have no prospects, noting that its CEO, Jim Skinner, started working at the company as a regular restaurant employee, and that 20 of its top 50 managers began work as regular crew members. [12] In 2007, the company launched an advertising campaign with the slogan "Would you like a career with that?" on Irish television, outlining that their jobs have many prospects. In a bid to tap into growing consumer interest in the provenance of food, the fast-food chain recently switched its supply of both coffee beans and milk. UK chief executive Steve Easterbrook said: “British consumers are increasingly interested in the quality, sourcing and ethics of the food and drink they buy". McDonald's coffee is now brewed from beans taken from stocks that have been certified by the conservation group the Rainforest Alliance. Similarly, milk supplies used for its hot drinks and milkshakes have been switched to organic sources which could account for 5% of the UK's organic milk output[13]. In other cases, the firm has shown itself ready to adjust its business practices. When the public became concerned that product packaging was environmentally damaging, McDonald's started a joint project with Friends of the Earth to eliminate the use of polystyrene containers, only in the United States, and to reduce the amount of waste produced. Throughout the McLibel trial, senior representatives of the firm said they were merely trying to protect its image from undue and unfounded attack. With regard to its numerous and often controversial copyright and trademark actions, McDonald's lawyers say they are simply protecting the company's intellectual property. Super Size Me has been characterized as a non-scientific publicity stunt. The subject of the film consumes massive quantities of McDonald's food, to the point of being sickened by it. Eating on an hourly schedule and, as part of his rules, eating additional quantities each time a McDonald's worker says the word "supersize," the subject gains weight. Following the release of the film Super Size Me, some people reported they had experienced no weight gain and suffered no ill effect by eating only at McDonald's for a month, but choosing menu items more judiciously and exercising frequently.Minimize Me Merab Morgan, a North Carolina woman, was even able to lose weight.Woman loses 33 lb on McDonald's diet She claimed that the transparency of nutritional information made it easy to control her daily caloric intake. more

Resolved Question: "star" if you like this funny...?

The Funniest Staff Meeting Ever! The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week. (This is one pretty sharp boss!) When everyone gathered, the boss, who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt out staff the purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The theme: Viagra advertising slogans. The only rule was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products that captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable. About 7 minutes later, they turned in their suggestions and created a Top 10 List. With all the laughter and camaraderie, the rest of the week went very well for everyone! The top 10 were: 10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up! 9. Viagra, The quicker pecker picker upper. 8. Viagra, like a rock! 7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. 6. Viagra, Be all that you can be. 5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone. 4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. 3. Viagra, Home of the whopper! 2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life! And the unanimous number one slogan: 1. This is your peepee. This is your peepee on drugs more

Resolved Question: Top 10 Most Brilliant Marketing Screw Ups?

1. Coors put its slogan, "Turn it loose," into Spanish, where it was read as "Suffer from diarrhoea." 2. Scandinavian vacuum manufacturer Electrolux used the following in an American campaign: "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux." 3. Clairol introduced the "Mist Stick", a curling iron, into German only to find out that "mist" is slang for manure. Not too many people had use for the "manure stick." 4. When Gerber started selling baby food in Africa, they used the same packaging as in the U.S., with the beautiful Caucasian baby on the label. Later they learned that in Africa, companies routinely put pictures on the label of what's inside, since most people can't read. 5. Colgate introduced a toothpaste in France called Cue, the name of a notorious porno magazine. 6. An American T-shirt maker in Miami printed shirts for the Spanish market which promoted the Pope's visit. Instead of "I saw the Pope" (el Papa), the shirts read "I saw the potato" (la papa).7. Pepsi's "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" translated into "Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave", in Chinese. 8. Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "it takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate." 9. The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Ke-kou-ke-la", meaning "Bite the wax tadpole" or "female horse stuffed with wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "ko-kou-ko-le", translating into "happiness in the mouth." 10. When Parker Pen marketed a ball-point pen in Mexico, its ads were supposed to have read, "it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you". Instead, the company thought that the word "embarazar" (to impregnate) meant to embarrass, so the ad read: "It won't leak in your pocket and make you pregnant." more

Resolved Question: Funniest staff meeting ever!?

The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week. (This is one pretty sharp boss!) When everyone gathered, the boss, who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt out staff the purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The theme: Viagra advertising slogans. the only rule was they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products, that captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable. About 7 minutes later, they turned in their suggestions and created a top 10 list. With all the laughter and camaraderie, the rest of the week went very well for everyone! The top 10 were: 10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up! 9. Viagra, The quicker pecker picker upper. 8. Viagra, like a rock! 7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. 6. Viagra, Be all that you can be. 5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone. 4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. 3. Viagra, Home of the whopper! 2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life! And the unanimous number one slogan: 1. This is your peepee. This is your peepee on drugs.Star if you like it. more

Resolved Question: OH DID you know that.......(((useless fact)))?

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.) Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick. The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord. The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container. The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe The top layer of a wedding cake, known as the groom's cake, traditionally is a fruit cake. That way it will save until the first anniversery. The only city whose name can be spelled completely with vowels is Aiea, Hawaii, located approximately twelve miles west of Honolulu. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead". When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield it's first consumable fruit. The common goldfish is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light. Linn's Stamp News is the world's largest weekly newspaper for stamp collectors. Tennessee is bordered by more states than any other. The eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. There are only three animals with blue tongues, the Black Bear, the Chow Chow dog and the blue-tongued lizard. There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum. In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated. Many hamsters only blink one eye at a time. Hamsters love to eat crickets. The only "real" food that U.S. Astronauts are allowed to take into space is pecan nuts. The word "queueing" is the only English word with five consecutive vowels. The difference between male and female blue crabs is the design located on their apron (belly.) The male blue crab has the Washington Monument while the female apron is shaped like the U.S. Capitol. The correct response to the Irish greeting, "Top of the morning to you," is "and the rest of the day to yourself." No word in the English language rhymes with month. Astronauts in the Space Shuttle are weightless not because there is no gravity in space, but because they are in free fall around the Earth. Only two people signed the Decleration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on Augest 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 year later. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. Table tennis balls have been known to travel off the paddle at speeds up to 105.6 miles per hour. If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birthplace was listed as a post office box in Albequerque. Only 1/3 of the people that can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time. The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean In case you ever find yourself piloting a dogsled, shout "Jee!" to make the dogs turn left and "Ha!" to go right. The oldest word in the English language is "town" The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism"... A quarter has 119 grooves around the edge. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large stret party. On an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner. No words in the English language rhyme with orange, silver or purple. A peanut is not a nut; it is a legume. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open Human birth control pills work on gorillas. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head. An elephant can be pregnant for up to two years. Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart. The youngest letters in the English language are "j," "v" and "w." The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic. Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle. A whale's penis is called adork. Coca-Cola was originally green. Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters. Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. The youngest pope was 11 years old.http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aoze8bqxXhZfFjQlWy4ZiM7sy6IX?qid=20070802165319AArZGpQ more

Resolved Question: when did they resolve this..Top 20 Cool Things About a?

Car That Goes Faster Than the Speed of Light -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20 Sleep 'til noon. Still get to work by 8:00am! 19 Doppler shift makes red traffic lights look green. 18 Breaking laws of physics only a misdemeanor in most states. 17 Never in car long enough to hear an entire Madonna song. 16 Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking keep bugging you to carpool. 15 No one can see you pick your nose while you drive. 14 Lunch breaks in Paris, circa 1792. 13 Holding a harmonic out the window makes the coolist sounds, and sparks too. 12 You can stop worrying about being sucked into a black hole driving home from work. 11 You'll be so thin while driving it you can even wear horizontal stripes. 10 That deer in your headlights is actually behind you. 9 Kid from Mentos commercial almost guaranteed to lose a limb if he tries to duck through back seat. 8 Traffic enforcement limited to cops with PhD's in Quantum Physics. 7 Bugs never see you coming. 6 As long as you're breaking the Einstein's conversion of energy and mass theory, you might as well run over Schrodinger's cat too. 5 Can make a fortune delivering pizza with the slogan "It's there before you order or it's free!" 4 Car makes it from Hollywood to London fast enough to not arouse suspicions of Elizabeth Hurley. 3 License plate: "Me=mc2" 2 Cigarette butts don't land in the backseat -- they land in last week! 1. enough is enough.yes i know its not so good but i stick to yahoo rules more

Resolved Question: Want public opinion on this issue related to a TOP RATED NEWS CHANNEL IN INDIA demanding for MONEY?

from TOP sources: A girl from AIRTEL Call centre called to reputed person of a TOP INDIAN TELUGU NEWS CHANNEL (TV9) on his Mobile 2 inform that he has crossed the Credit Limit on his Mob/connection & has to pay some amount. After hearing the girl's request, asked her to wait on line and went on speaking to other person for almost 45 minutes. The girl was still waiting for his reply. After 45 minutes (approx), girl murmered to her colleague that she suspects the guy is making her wait for so long time and not answering to her and what to do? On hearing this, so called reputed person immediately disconnected the line and called to Manager of Airtel. This issue was made big by TV-9 person and demanded Rs. 10 Lacs as compensation for dishonouring him on phone. He visited C/Care made big meeting lasting to 15-20 days and finally agreed @ Rs. 8 Lacs. He was paid the entire amount. Is it fair on his part to do so who makes slogans reg. crime, truth, error & terror in the country?????Though the girl was not punished nor penalised, is it fair on his part to demand money from AIRTEL. Does he have any right to speak of Corruption and crime in the world, who himself is a corrupted person. What's the use of sitting in a big chair, so proud of his name, fame and money bcoz of his news channel. He is fooling people just the way a STD / HIV infected prostitute pointing to Gay of his weakness. Shy on his part. PLEASE ANSWER THIS QUESTION. This is not only the one. but many TOP PERSONS speaks something and does something. more

Resolved Question: Top 10 Hillary Clinton Campaign Slogans?

10. “Read My Lips – No New Interns.” 9. “Reward Me For Putting Up With Bill’s Crap For So Long” 8. “Isn’t It Time You Were Disappointed By A Different Clinton?” 7. “Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You, Ask How You Illegally Contribute To My Campaign” 6. “Vote For Me Or My Husband Will Nail Your Wife” 5. “You Give Me A Vote, I’ll Get Vernon Jordan To Give You A Job” 4. “Still Not Indicted As Of 2007!” 3. “From Perjury to Albany” 2. “Building A Bridge To The Next Decade, And Pushing My Husband Over It!” And the Number One Hilliary Clinton Campaign Slogan… 1. “Oh Lord, Please Don’t Make Me Go Back to Arkansas” more

Resolved Question: What is your favorite TV/radio commericial jingle/slogan?

Can anyone find me a website with the top 10 or top 100 best of all time? more

Resolved Question: Top ten reasons why I think we just had a “good” election. What do you think?

Top ten reasons why I think we just had a “good” election. 10.Alan Peter Cayetano still belongs in the magic 12 trending, in spite of Joselito Cayetano. It only goes to show that many Filipinos watch the news and are aware of the issues and as such, are incensed at the dirty tactics of other politicians. 9.Trillanes’ name is popping up in the magic 12 trend, in spite being unable to launch a full campaign and be physically present in those he was able to launch. This only goes to show that many voters are no longer drawn by dancing politicians in colorful stages spewing out highly attractive, highly abstract promises. It shows that many voters are already drawn to the issues that the candidates represent and not on the beauty of their posters or the number of posters pasted on walls, constantly nagging us. Either this or the Filipinos just merely love underdogs. Which goes to explain why Rainier Castillo and Sandara Park of different talent searches top their text polls; but that’s another story. 8. Goma is not winning. This only goes to show that many voters are no longer drawn by dancing politicians in colorful stages spewing out highly attractive, highly abstract promises. Period. 7. Buboy is not winning. This only goes to show that many voters are no longer drawn by dancing politicians in colorful stages spewing out highly attractive, highly abstract promises. And it proves that letting your child sing in your commercial may be cute in your family reunions but don’t expect that it would get you votes in national elections. And it also proves that playing Jose Rizal in the movies will not make people associate the person with the Character, and think of him as a hero. Furthermore it also proves that playing Chavit Singson in the movies will not make people associate him again with the character and make him a hero. Which is much more difficult, unless your definition of hero is Chavit. 6.Chavit Singson is not winning. It only goes to show that having someone who played the role of Jose Rizal play your character does not guarantee that people will think of you as a hero especially when you really ain’t one. Look for the word “kontrabida” in a Filipino Dictionary and you will see a picture of Chavit. It also disproves the idea that brandishing that you are the “boses ng probinsya” or any other slogan as lame as that will still still deceive probinsyanos . They have their governors. 5. Chiz Escudero is topping polls. This only goes to show that when you are honest and good, and fearless in being honest and good, people in all walks of life are going to back you up. People who still believe in hope, adhere to people who look like unstoppable force of goodness. Which goes to explain why some people somewhere sometime would pull out their guns inside the “sinehan” and shoot the kontrabida trying to shoot Fernando Poe behind his back. But that’s another story. 4. Ed Panlilio of Pampanga is fighting a close fight for the gubernatorial position. This only goes to show that when you are honest and good, and fearless in being honest and good, people in all walks of life are going to back you up in spite of lingering temptations of not voting or worst, selling their votes. It doesn’t matter that you don’t have enough funds to print posters; people are going to print posters for you, hell, even paint rice sacks with your name. It doesn’t matter if your opponents are going to hand-out money, people are going to accept them and donate them for your campaign. 3. Manny Pacquiao is not winning. When the country watches Manny win in his title bouts people are cheering, feeling proud that they are Filipino, making merry, jumping in triumph. When the country watches Manny getting beaten up by Custodio by thousands of votes, people are sighing a sigh of relief, feeling proud of the Filipinos in Gen San, and jumping with the triumph of intelligent voting. You gotta hand it to Manny, manalo (boxing), matalo (election), masaya pa rin ang tao. Mahirap gawin yun unless clown ka. (Which anyway, Manny does for “sideline” sometimes. But that’s another story.) This only goes to show that many voters are no longer drawn by non-dancing politicians in colorful stages unable to spew out highly attractive, highly abstract promises. Wala lang talaga. 2. Pichay is not getting planted in the senate Pichay’s case is now the leading example among Business Management students on how having the best and highly-budgeted marketing team in the Philippines will do you no good if the product is bad. Pichay’s case also proves that the best marketing team in the Philippines will do you no good if you made fun of your own name from the start anyway. And it doesn’t help that he looks funny anyway. Look in the Filipino Dictionary for the verb “nangarap” and you will see a picture of Pichay. And what the hell is a “pro-pinoy” Aren’t they all suppose to be pro-pinoy? Is there an anti-pinoy candidate? (Well, there’s Mike Defensor, but, ahem, that’s another story). Back to Pichay. He spent short of 100 million pesos. His marketing team should have allotted at least a few million pesos for lipo-suction. That way, he wouldn’t look like he’s going to get-even with the Filipinos after the elections after all the money his spent. 1.Mike Defensor is not winning. If you let people call you “tol” people are going to be at ease with you. No matter how “bad boy” you’ve been, you will still be able to sell anything from slippers, prepaid cards, soft drinks and multivitamins. That is, if your name is Robin Padilla. If your name is Mike Defensor, that’s another story. Look for the word tuta in the dictionary and you will see Tol’s face. Which doesn’t exactly make him “Tol”. Defensor’s case proves that the second best marketing team in the Philippines will do you no good if the product is bad. Most importantly Tol’s case proves that having a Manny Pacqiao look-a-like in your tv ads will not make you win. Syet, Eh si Chavit Singson nga, si Manny Pacqiao na mismo ang nasa commercial nya, di pa rin nananalo. Eh bat ka pa nga naman magtataka, eh si Manny Pacqiao nga Manny Pacqiao na ang mukha nya, di pa rin siya manalonalo. Powtek!u'r ryt josh, what they are capable of doing is really scary. they've done worst in their regime. more

Resolved Question: Random jokes and whatnot?

A blonde and her brunette friend were talking, when the blonde said, "I hate all the blonde jokes people tell." "Oh, they are only jokes. There are a lot of stupid people out there. Here, I'll prove it to you." They went outside and hailed a taxi driver. "Please take me to 29 Nickel Street to see if I'm home," said the brunette. The taxi drove them to Nickel Street, and when they finally got out, the brunette looked at the blonde and said, "See! That guy was really stupid." "No kidding," replied the blonde. "There was a pay phone just around the corner. You could have called instead." ----------------------------------- A blonde went to the dentist one day to have a tooth pulled and she was very nervous about it. The dentist noticed this and while he was putting his gloves on, he started to talk to the woman so she wouldn't feel so nervous. He asked, "Do you know how they make these gloves?" The woman shook her head. The doctor explained, "In a big rubber factory they have a whole lot of men and women with different hand sizes and they have to put their hands into a big huge tank of melted rubber and wait until it dries and then take it off and do it again." The woman didn't even blink she seemed to be too busy trying not the panic. So he tried telling her a joke or two but once again she didn't even smirk. So he gave up about five to ten minute later. In the middle of getting the tooth removed she burst out laughing and he had to stop in case she'd choke. He asked, "What's wrong?" She just laughed and said, "If that's how they make gloves I wonder how they make condoms." ----------------------------------- A blonde, A brunette, and a red-head all died in a car crash, and they all went to heaven at the same time. They arrive at the gates of heaven, when God appears and tells them they must pass a laughter test, if they fail, they will be sent to hell. The objective was to climb 100 stairs without laughing. Each stair will have it's own joke. The Brunette goes first, and laughs at the 46th stair. The Red-Head goes second, and makes it to the 77th stair. The Blonde, makes all the way to the 100th step, when she suddenly bursts out with laughter. God asks "Why are you laughing now?" The Blonde says "I just got the first joke". ----------------------------------- 10. Viagra, it's "Whaazzzzz Up!" 9. Viagra, the quicker pecker upper. 8. Viagra, like a rock! 7. Viagra, when it absolutely, positively has to be there tonight. 6. Viagra, be all that you can be. 5. Viagra, reach out and touch someone 4. Viagra, strong enough for a man, but made for a woman! 3. Viagra, tastes great! More filling! 2. Viagra, we bring good things to life! And the number one slogan being considered by Viagra: 1. This is your penis... This is your penis on drugs. ----------------------------------- A man was sitting at a bar enjoying an after-work cocktail when an exceptionally gorgeous & sexy young woman entered. She was so striking that the man could not take his eyes away from her. The young woman noticed his overly-attentive stare and walked directly toward him. Before he could offer his apologies for being so rude, the young woman said to him, "I'll do anything, absolutely anything, that you want me to do, no matter how kinky, for $100 on one condition." Flabbergasted, the man asked what the condition was. The young woman replied, "You have to tell me what you want me to do in just three words." The man considered her proposition for a moment, withdrew his wallet from his pocket and slowly counted out five $20 bills, which he pressed into the young woman's hand. He looked deeply into her eyes and slowly, meaningfully said, "Paint my house." ----------------------------------- The sperm whale has the heaviest brain of any creature that ever lived on Earth. Julius Caesar, the famous Roman emperor, had all the hair on his body plucked. Baldness in ancient times was a sign of mascilinity. Charles Dickens got paid penny per word for his novels. (Thus explains the length of "A TALE OF TWO CITIES") Dinosaurs burped and farted. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before starving to death. The shortest war in history was 38 minutes between England and Zanzibar. A polar bear's skin is black. The fur is not white. It is actually clear. William Shakespeare, the English genius, invented the words "assassination" and "bump." Women blink twice as much as men. On average, a right- handed person lives nine years longer than a left- handed person. If the population of China passed you in a single file line, it would never end because of the rate of reproduction. China has more English speakers than the USA. The longest name for a town in the world is 167 letters. The longest word in the English language contains 1909 letters. It is the name for a part of DNA. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world with aa population of 1000 and an area of 108.7 acres. An elephant walks on its three toes. The whale is considered a mammal (creature with hair or fur). The hair on the whale is on its chin. It has three hairs. A cow cannot give milk unless it has had a baby first. The right arm of President Lincoln was longer than his left. This is because in the political campaigns, he would have his right arm shaked many times. No portrait of Washington exist with his mouth open. He had wooden teeth and if were to open his mouth, his teeth would fall out. Washington never chopped down a cherry tree. Marie Antoinette never said "Let them eat cake." It was rumored that she did to stir hatred against her. Some useless things to know for the fact of knowing. The most common last name in the world is Patel. The most common first name in the world is Mohammed. No word in the English language rhymes with the words month, orange, purple, or silver. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. Our stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every 2 weeks or else it will digest itself. Our skin weighs twice as much as our brain. An ostrich's eye is larger than its brain. If you ever find yourself in the jaws of a crocodile, jam your thumbs into each of its eyes. It will release you instantly. The first bomb dropped by the Allies in WW II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo. If you being chased by an alligator or crocodile, run in a straight path rather than zig-zag. They can't see straight. The best selling book in the history of man is the Bible. The largest pyramid is not in Egypt but rather in the Yucatan (Mexico), built by the Mayans. The Amazon River is the largest river in the world by volume. If a octopus gets hungry eough, it'll eat its own arms, besides it has eight it can spare one or two. When you sneeze, the air that comes out of your nose goes faster than that of a hurricane. Why is it that to stop Windows 95 or 98, you have to click on "Start"? Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin? Why does the sun lighten our hair, but darken our skin? Why can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? Why don't you ever see the headline "Psychic Wins Lottery"? Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? Why is a boxing ring square? Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"? Who had the horrible idea of the word lisp having a 's' in it? Why is it that rain drops but snow falls? Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavour, and dish washing liquid made with real lemons? Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour? Why is the word dictionary in the dictionary? Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? Why isn't there mouse-flavoured cat food? You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes? Why can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance? Can fat people go skinny-dipping? Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive? Why is it in a film any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds, unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside. Why is it in a film most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization. Why is it in a film television news bulletins always contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment you turn the television on. Why is it in a film the door bell always rings at the end of a conversation, never in the middle. Why is it in a film a detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. Why is it in a film if you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps. ----------------------------------- A mother taught her daughter about sex. She said,"If somebody feels the top part of your body, say stop. If somebody touches the bottom part, say don't." One day the daughter came to the mother and said,"A boy in my class touched both the top and bottom parts, so I said, don't stop!" ----------------------------------- Two virgins get married. As their first night together approaches, they wonder what they are supposed to do. So they decide to call the bride's mother. The mother tells them to get undressed. They do. Then she tells the bride that the groom should put the "Hardest part of his body into where you go to the bathroom." An hour later, when the bride's mother calls back and asks how everything went, the bride says, "Well, I don't know, he has his head stuck in the toilet bowl, now what?"Anything funny to you? Star. Too long for you? Star anyways. more

Resolved Question: Anybody interested in reading a long but interesting article about the little Known Genocide in Armenia ?

Armenian Genocide Holocaust ------------- The plans of the 1915-23 Armenian Genocide, where a million and half Armenians perished in a barbaric way in their ancestral lands in modern Turkey, actually were drawn up and were in place by the year 1910 or 1912. There is the book "Inner Folds of the Ottoman Revolution" written by Mevlan Zadeh Rifat in Turkish and published in 1929, the author, a pro-sultan Turk, claims that the "Armenian genocide was decided in August 1910 and October 1911, by a Young Turk committee composed entirely of displaced Balkan Jews in the format of a syncretist Jewish-Muslim sect which included Talaat, Enver, Behaeddin Shakir, Jemal, and Nizam posting as Muslims. It met in the Rothschild-funded Grand Orient loge/hotel of Salonika." Syncretism means a combination of different forms of belief or practice; masonism fits that description. As the masons started the 1897 revolution in France with the cry "liberty, fraternity, equality," Young Turks used the same slogan in their revolution of 1908. A 1994 conference paper/lecture by Joseph Brewda of Schiller Institute entitled "Palmerson launches Young Turks to permanently control Middle East " claims the founder of the Young Turks to be a certain Jew by the name of Emmanuel Carasso. He states: "Carasso set up the Young Turk secret society in the 1890s in Salonika, then part of Turkey, and now part of Greece. Carasso was also the grand master of an Italian masonic lodge there, called 'Macedonia Resurrected.' The lodge was the headquarters of the Young Turks, and all the top Young Turk leadership were members." Further on Mr. Brewda says: "During the Young Turk regime, Carasso continued to play a leading role. He met with the sultan, to tell him that he was overthrown. He was in charge of putting the sultan under house arrest. He ran the Young Turk intelligence network in the Balkans. And he was in charge of all food supplies in the empire during World War I." It is ironic that four centuries after the Turkish sultans welcomed the expelled European Jews into Turkey, certain Jews belonging to secret societies and to Zionism will kick the sultan out of power early in 20th century, destroy the Ottoman Empire, and celebrated their victory by massacring by proxy almost the whole Christian Armenian people, one million and half Armenians; half million Greeks; and half million Christian Assyrians & Arameans. In 1982, after the Israeli army conquered Lebanon, they celebrated their victory by massacring by proxy children and women in the Palestinian camp of Shattila, in Lebanon, by allowing Lebanese Phalanger militia fighters to move into the camp for two days and murder its inhabitants. Eighty percent of the camp were killed. Nearly all of the dead were old men, women and children and all of them had been unarmed. Not one gun, not one knife was found in their possession, claims a Palestinian witness. All this according to the percepts of the Talmud, the Satanic Bible of the Jews, which encourages Jews to kill, directly or indirectly, by sayings like: "Every Jew who spills the blood of the godless, is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God." Talmud: Bammidber Raba c21 & Jalkut 772. In the eyes of Talmudists all non-Jews are godless. And "It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah." Talmud: Coschen Hamischpat, Hagah 425. Very neatly put sentence indeed. Jesus came and shed his blood for us in order to save humanity and put an end to human and animal sacrifices practiced by Talmudist Jews who believe that the shedding of the blood of the innocents is a prerequisite of their reptilian gods, specially before embarking on an enterprise. They have orchestrated the massacres and slaughters of millions and millions of humanity so that their demonic gods will be appeased and grand them a new homeland in the near-east. Apparently, the sacrifice of hundreds of millions of humanity during the first half of the twenty century (including the six million Jews of Nazi Holocaust) have appeased their gods and their wish was granted. Back to the Young Turks. Mr. Brewda writes: "Another important area was the press. While in power, the Young Turks ran several newspapers, including 'The Young Turk,' whose editor was none other than the Russian Zionist leader Vladimir Jabotinsky. Jabotinsky had been educated as a young man in Italy." Mr. Brewda, ignoring the possibility that Talaat could have been a secret infiltrated Jew, writes: "Of course, there were also some Turks who helped lead the Young Turk movement. For example, Talaat Pasha. Talaat was the interior minister and dictator of the regime during World war I. He had been a member of Carasso's Italian masonic lodge in Salonika. One year prior to the 1908 coup, Talaat became the grand master of the Scottish Rite Masons in the Ottoman Empire. If you go to the [archives of] Scottish Rite headquarters in Washington, D.C., you can find that most of the Young Turk leaders were officials in the Scottish Rite." By 1916 the British and French, overpowered by greed, already had a secret agreement to divide the Ottoman Empire between themselves. Presently Hitler's "Mien Kempt " anti-semitic book is a best-seller in Turkey, it is published by various Turkish publishers by thousands and thousands. Are the Turks finally waking up and realizing that their Sultan's refusal to grant Palestine to the Zionist Jews as a homeland had cost them their centuries-old empire? And are the subjugated Turks about to discover who their real rulers are? There are claims that the blue-eyed founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk had Jewish origins. And it is known that at least two presidents of modern Turkey (Inonu and Bayar) were Jewish. In Istanbul, which was the capital and the power center of the Ottoman Empire, there was only few thousands (less than 10,000) Jews and some 200,000 Armenians and Greeks who controlled the trade, finances and arts of the Empire. Jews and Christians were in strong competition through hundreds of years of the life of the empire. Jews were the losers and Christians were the winner always because the Sultans ( there were very few bad sultans who killed Christians) listened to and favored the Christians. For the Zionist Jews to take over Turkey, its Christians had to be eliminated; and that is another ugly facade of the first Genocide of the 20th Century in Turkey. Another source is the lengthy article "The Armenian & Jewish Genocide Project: Eliminating Ethnic Conflict Along the Oil Route From Baku to the Suez Canal Region " written by Clifford Shack and posted in his web-site. Mr. Shack writes: "In the 1880's, the French branch of the Rothschild family acquired interests in Russia's Baku oil fields in an effort to supply their refinery on the Adriatic with cheap Russian oil. In exchange for these interests they built a railroad linking Baku to the newly acquired Black Sea port of Batum. This opened up the Baku oil, a major world supply, to the world. With the success of the new railroad, the Rothschilds had more oil than they could actually sell. Overcoming their fear of competing with the giant Standard oil [of USA], they sought out the huge [Far East] markets east of Suez." Further on Mr. Shack makes his point: "The decision by the shrewd French Rothschild branch to diversify into other areas of oil exploitation was, presumably, a calculated one. Three years after they joined Royal Dutch, production at Baku would come to an abrupt halt in 1905. Although shaken by political activity, the principal disruption was due to the violence of the ethnic conflict between the region's Muslims and the minority population of Armenians who are Christians. This ethnic conflict caused the first interruption of oil distribution to the world market. Standard oil was quick to supplant the needs of the effected markets as its source was operating under the blanket of peace. The Royal/Dutch/Shell Group (and the Nobles) watched their Baku investments go up in flames. Ethnic conflict was at the root of the matter. It could be safely assumed that they were taking measures to eliminate the possibility of that happening in the future." Oil corporations seem to have learned their lessons from history because before the construction of present-day Baku-Ceyhan pipeline has began, someone has made sure that no Armenians were left in Baku anymore. Mr. Shack notes that "the mere elimination of the Armenian population of Baku would not solve the problem of ethnic conflict in that region. The surrounding areas would provide reservoir effect in resupplying the conflicting minority element." And he asks: "was the removal [in 1915-23] of a small minority like the Armenians [from historical Armenia] a fair price to pay for the peace in a region so crucial to the development and investment of the Far East?" Apparently Mr. Shack ignores the factor of revenge raging in the heart of human beasts. Mr. Shacks answers his own question by stating in his article about the big business or big corporations: "It would be fair to say that the genocide of a group of a million or so, to serve the benefit of a billion or so [in the Far East], is less of a question of should it be done, than how it could be done. So as not to reveal any plausible motive which could link the actual planners to the genocide, the scheme involved a proxy party [namely the Muslim Turks, Kurds & Azeris] , which was manipulated through layers of influence, providing sufficient cover for the planners." In chapter 30 of the book of Isaiah we read God speaking by His prophet: "Woe to the rebellious children, who execute a plan, but not Mine, and make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, in order to add sin to sin;...For this is a rebellious people, false sons, sons who refuse to listen to the instruction of the Lord." This is not the whole story; there is an evil aliens connection to it. Amitakh Stanford, in her web-site <http://www.xeeatwelve.com... and in her article "The Anunnaki Remnants Are Still on Earth" writes: "It is these horrible beings, the Anunnaki, that Sitchin has written an apology for. Reading Sitchin's material, he has painted these evil aliens as palatably as possible by presenting the story that they are trying to save their own planet, and leaves the readers to believe that after that is accomplished, they would leave without a trace, so to speak. But, the Anunnaki came here to conquer and enslave, not for any worthy purpose whatsoever, nor will they leave voluntarily. "Anunnaki cull people and other species from the planet. Before, this was often referred to as genocide. However, today the more euphemistic term of "ethnic cleansing" is used. The disdain of other races is another vile Anunnaki-sponsored trait to divide people into factions and create hatred and distrust of one another. Any fair look at history will verify this as true. The twentieth-century Holocaust is one such example." So after all, we are not dealing with normal human beings, but by humans who are possessed with those alien entities and humans that are manipulated, influenced, and given instructions by those evil aliens in their various factions. _____ This research article is not copyrighted. Reproduction is permitted. No one need waste time calling the author an 'anti-semite.' He will be the first to come to the help of a Jew if and when a Jewish life is in peril. Before you call him anti-semite your better call the God of the Bible and His prophets 'anti-semites.' If not, then you have to re-read the Bible...carefully. For Joseph Brewda's article go to : SchillerInstitute.org then put the name of the author or title of his article in the search tab of the web-site of the institute. For Clifford Shack's article, put his name in the search tap of Yahoo in order to find his web-site where his article is posted. The Turkish book "Inner Folds of the Ottoman Revolution" has no known English translation. It was translated into Armenian in 1939 in Beirut, Lebanon, by Donigian Press. http://www.rense.com/general64/genoc.htm more

Resolved Question: viagra funny or not?

The boss of a Madison Avenue advertising agency called a spontaneous staff meeting in the middle of a particularly stressful week. (This is one pretty sharp boss!) When everyone gathered, the boss, who understood the benefits of having fun, told the burnt out staff the purpose of the meeting was to have a quick contest. The theme: Viagra advertising slogans. The only rule was that they had to use past ad slogans, originally written for other products, that captured the essence of Viagra. Slight variations were acceptable. About seven minutes later, they turned in their suggestions and created a Top Ten List. With all the laughter and camaraderie, the rest of the week went very well for everyone The top ten were: 10. Viagra, Whaazzzz up! 9. Viagra, The quicker p*cker upper. 8. Viagra, Like a rock! 7. Viagra, When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight. 6. Viagra, Be all that you can be.5. Viagra, Reach out and touch someone. 4. Viagra, Strong enough for a man, but made for a woman. 3. Viagra, home of the whopper! 2. Viagra, We bring good things to Life! And the unanimous number one slogan: 1. This is your w**kie. This is your w**kie on drugs. more

Resolved Question: mike tysons top ten funny or true?

NO. 10 Tyson already has his next fight lined up, with Lorena Bobbitt. Winner eats all. NO. 9 This gives new meaning to “box lunch.” NO. 8 Reporter: “Evander, what did you think when Tyson bit off your ear?” Holyfield: “What?” NO. 7 Spock-vs.-Tyson bout hastily canceled - John Corl, Rochester, N.Y. NO. 6 What did Mike Tyson say to Van Gogh? “You gonna eat that?” NO. 5 Did you hear about the new Mike Tyson computer? It has two bytes and no memory NO. 4 Next bout: Tyson vs. Hannibal Lecter, with Julia Child to referee. To be held in Hungary. Billed as, “The snackfest in Budapest.” NO. 3 How does Mike Tyson differ from Metallica? Metallica leaves a ringing in your ears. Tyson leaves your ear in a ring. NO. 2 Slogans for Tys * The T * Da * * Ear-Reconcilable Differences NO. 1 When interviewed after the fight, Tyson’s first remarks were that “it tasted like chicken.” more

Resolved Question: Top Ten Failed Slogans do you like?

10. Elite Modeling Agency (tm) "Where ugly people need not apply." 9. Pop Rocks (tm) "What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." 8. Wesson (tm) Oil "Because car oil tastes nasty with chicken." 7. Hoover (tm) "No one sucks like Hoover does." 6. Smith & Wesson (tm) "Say it with love. Say it with a gun." 5. Vagasil (tm) "Because women aren't supposed to scratch in public." 4. Jessie Helm's campaign slogan "'Cause you don't know no better." 3. Hooters (tm) "Who needs good food?" 2. Gerber (tm) "Because a baby will put anything in its mouth." 1. NyQuil (tm) "The Nightime, Sniffling, Sneezing, Coughing, Achy-Head, Oh-my-God-I-can't-feel-my-legs medicine."sorry i think i posted this twice more

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