Question #1:
Sceptics: are you aware that even the big energy companies believe in climate change now?
.NRG Energy has recently won up to $154 million from the Dept. of Energy to help it install a system to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ONE of it's coal-fired power plants.
As the Dallas News article reports, this follows the company signing up to join the Climate Action Partnership and testifying before house and senate committees writing climate change legislation.
The 154 Million Dollar grant comes after the company also spent under one million dollars on lobbying on climate change in Washington: [QUOTE]
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""The New Jersey-based utility spent $910,000 on lobbying in 2009, according to Senate records. It spent $300,000 just during the fourth quarter of 2009, when it lobbied on a host of incentives available to energy companies, including loan guarantees for nuclear plants and renewable energy projects.
NRG has maintained its membership in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a group of businesses and environmental organizations that played a big role in shaping the House bill.""
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And the best bit of news of all? NRG Corporation intends to sell the carbon dioxide it captures to big oil companies so they can inject it into the ground to extract even more oil! Treble whiskies all round!
~ So, sceptics, do you admit that even the big oil and energy companies "believe" in climate change now?
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Question #2:
ramadan : prophet (saw) and forgiveness in Islam ?
On one of the days during his illness, Imam Ali (as) and Fadl ibn Abbas helped bring Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) into the mosque. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) entered with much difficulty dragging his feet. He had tied his head with a piece of cloth. When Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was finally on the pulpit, he said: "O people! The time has arrived that I shall leave you. If I have made a promise with anyone, I am prepared to fulfill it; and if I owe something to somebody, he should speak out, so that I may make payment to him".At this moment a man stood up and said: "In the past you had promised to help me financially if I got married." Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) immediately ordered Fadl ibn Abbas to pay the required amount to him. Then he dismounted the pulpit and went home. Thereafter he came to the mosque again on the Friday, three days before his demise. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) said: "Whoever has a right over me should stand and mention it, for punishment in this world is lighter than the punishment on the Day of Judgment."
At this moment, Sawadah ibn Qays stood up and said: "When we were returning from the Battle of Ta'if, you raised your scourge to hit the camel you were riding, but it accidentally struck my stomach. I want to take revenge now."
It is remarkable that the request of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was not a mere formality but it was a serious request. Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) wanted to compensate even for the smallest acts and rights, which were not usually of any importance for the common people. Furthermore, as Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) did not hit Sawadah ibn Qays intentionally, Sawadah ibn Qays did not have the right to take revenge. He could only ask for Diya - a prescribed compensation through payment. Regardless of this however, Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) wanted to grant his wish.
Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) therefore, ordered the same scourge to be brought from his house. He then prepared his clothing in a manner so that Sawadah ibn Qays could take his revenge. The companions of Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) were watching the scene with grieved hearts. Their eyes were filled with tears. Everyone wanted to see how the matter would end and whether Sawadah ibn Qays would actually take revenge or not?
Suddenly they saw Sawadah ibn Qays kissing Prophet Mohammed (pbuh). At this moment Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) prayed for him and said: "O Allah (SWT)! Forgive Sawadah ibn Qays in the same manner that he has forgiven the Prophet of Islam".
Question #3:
which name goes better with Tristan & Finley?
Grantly- not just grant!Kingsley
Kingston
Percy
Question #4:
If you fight for me, I will grant you a free ticket to heaven, will you do this for me?
The expiration date...12/31/10
:D...
I'm an atheist :D
Question #5:
Gordon brown on iraq?
during the enquiry he insisted that every request for vital equipment was granted, despite army personell saying it didnt happen and soldiers dying because of shoddy kit jamming also embarassingly having to ask the americans to ride in their helicopters, do you think he was blatently lying or kept in the dark about the defence budget!alan you are a moron, we can waste taxes on mass immigration but cant help our soldiers, you chump
Question #6:
Will I still get my Pell grant and Government loans if we owe the Irs and are paying them monthly?
we just found out we owe 4,000 to the irs for a misfiled tax return last year..We are going to set up a monthly payment plan to the IRS..I was hoping and wondering If I can continue in college with the Government Pell grants and student loans even while paying them back? or if they will not give me anymore money?Question #7:
how to make a statement tomorrow at school?
I'm the type of kid everyone takes for granted. I bring all this shitt to school all the time randomly. Like a few weeks ago I got everyone cookies - like amazing anoosh cookies fresh tender and delicous - just out of the blue and i got them delivered to the classes of my friends - even the ones not close to me. I always bring all this stuff. I've been sick for two days and NO ONE - accept one person - even had he audacity to call me or even send me a bb pin or text message asking how i was. I want to make a statement tomorrow but what should i do.you know, i've never thought about it that way. Thats actually a pretty good answer not to my question though. Still i want to know how i can mak a statement
but i was expecting a text message by the least I deserve it. Popular kids loolll they dooo actually.
Question #8:
How did the Biblical (Hebrew Bible) notions of slavery affect society?
I'm studying Parashat Mishpotim in Exodus right now, and have an exam coming soon. My professor asked us this question, and I'm not sure how to respond. From what I can understand from the readings there was a big difference between a Jewish slave and a non-Jewish slave. A Jewish slave was granted freedom after six years, whereas a non-Jewish slave was not. So what ramification did this have on society? Or am I just not understanding this Parashat correctly?Question #9:
Filled out a fasfa but now changed mind about going through with it?
I applied at the art institute of pittsburgh online division. Went through with the application and filled out a fasfa and filled out a stafford loan application. I am not enrolled yet. They haven't accepted me yet, but from what I see they accept everyone. I have seen too many bad reviews and only 1 or 2 good reviews. What do I need to do to stop everything. They are known for enrolling people without their knowledge and taking grants. I'm real worried please help. I already asked a similar ?? if you could look at it Click HereQuestion #10:
I just applied to an online college but don't want to go through with it?
I applied to art institute of pittsburgh online division. Now I have second thoughts. They are listed by the better business bureau as having a D- rating. I also have seen more bad reviews than good. What do I have to do to not go here? They haven't accepted me but from what I seen they accept everyone. I already went through the financial aid process and application process. What's next? I'm worried other people said they didn't even enroll and the school took there grants and loans. Please help I'm worried.Question #11:
remove three add three (last boys)?
these are the names 31-45 on my boys list (some are guilty pleasures).Which name do you like the most? Which three names would you remove? If you could add three names what would they be?Jude Tobias
Alfred Liam
Tucker Finn
Foster Grant
Joshua Abram
Michael Baxter
Sawyer Twain
Deacon Elias
Edgar Tobias
Gideon Elijah
Ephraim Noah
Cooper Patrick
Roarke Alexander
Archibald Rhys
Kellen Stewart
Question #12:
How is Man adapting to the changing Earth?
The disasters the world has witnessed in the last three months have been admittedly the worst on record. These have been increasing. Granted, everyone has an opinion on why and the distraction over the 'why', is holding back everyone from preparing. It's like waiting for the bus at the bus stop, and not having your pass or your change ready.Question #13:
Which of these statements by Mother Teresa are incorrect?
...and explain your rationale.This is the third time I've asked this question, and no one has provided any response. Is it because Mother Teresa is correct? Is there no logic to counter her reasoning?
"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
"Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants."
"What is taking place in America is a war against the child. And if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another."
"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest of gifts -- a child -- as a competitor, an intrusion, and an inconvenience. It has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners. Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or a sovereign."
"But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child - a direct killing of the innocent child - murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even his life to love us. So the mother who is thinking of abortion, should be helped to love - that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to respect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts. By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems. And by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion just leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching the people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want. That is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion. "
"Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child."
Dr. Kevorkian, you are a victim of post hoc ergo propter hoc illogic. You do not establish a causal relationship between abortion and the rate of violent crime. Did not your statistics professor remind you that correlation is not causality? Your claim that the children not aborted would grow up to be delinquents, and that they are better off dead, is in line with Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, who stressed "More children from the fit, less from the unfit." By your logic, Abraham Lincoln was better off dead.
If "it is the right and responsibility of every parent to do what is best for the child," how can one reason that they are better off dead? That flies in the face of the inalienable right to life in our Declaration of Independence. You validate Mother Teresa's comment that "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish" and "if we accept that the mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?"
Divine, you did not address anything she said, only displayed bigotry with respect to who she was. By your logic, since you do not appear to be a godly woman, you cannot comment on the creation of life. Your <no regrets> comments also indicate that you look at the life and death aspect of abortion only through your own eyes...that seems to validate the comment by Mother Teresa that your decision regarding abortion was driven solely by what you wished, without regard for the life you carried in your womb.
Question #14:
More Islamic terrorists... When will the world fight back?
JOS, Nigeria (AFP) – UN chief Ban Ki-moon and Washington led calls for restraint on Monday after the slaughter of more than 500 Christians in Nigeria, as survivors told how the killers chopped down their victims.Funerals took place for victims of the three-hour orgy of violence on Sunday in three Christian villages close to the northern city of Jos, blamed on members of the mainly Muslim Fulani ethnic group.
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Why is Islam such a violent religion?
The following are only some of the verses in the Qur’an that can and have been used in the history of Islam in support of violence in the name of God and the glories of martyrdom in a holy war.
2:190-193 “Fight in the cause of God those who fight you … And slay them wherever ye catch them … And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression and there prevail justice and faith in God …”
2:216 “Fighting is prescribed for you and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you, and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But God knoweth and ye know not.”
2:224 “Then fight in the cause of God and know that God heareth and knoweth all things.”
3:157-158 “And if ye are slain or die in the way of God, forgiveness and mercy from God are far better than all they could amass. And if ye die, or are slain, Lo! It is unto God that ye are brought together.”
3:169 “Think not of those who are slain in God’s way as dead. Nay, they live finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord.”
3:195 “… Those who have … fought or been slain, verily I will blot out from them their iniquities and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath; a reward from the presence of God …”
4:101 “… For the Unbelievers are unto you open enemies.”
4:74, 75 “Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of God whether he is slain or gets victory, soon shall we give him a reward of great (value). Those who believe fight in the cause of God and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil, so fight ye against the friends of Satan, feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan.”
4:89 “They but wish that ye should reject faith as they do, and thus be on the same footing as they. But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of God. But if they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them…”
4:95 “Not equal are those believers who sit at (at home) and receive no hurt and those who strive and fight in the cause of God with their goods and their persons. God hath granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than those who sit (at home).
5:36 “The punishment of those who wage war against God and His apostle and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land. That is their disgrace in this world and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter.”
5:54 “O ye who believe. Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors. They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily God guideth not a people unjust.”
8:12-17 “Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): “I am with you. Give firmness to the believers. I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. Smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger tips off them. This because they contend against God and his apostle. If any contend against God and his apostle, God is strict in punishment … O ye who believe. When ye meet the unbelievers in hostile array, never turn your backs to them. If any do turn his back to them on such a day, unless it be a stratagem of war … he draws on himself the wrath of God and his abode is Hell, an evil refuge (indeed).”
8:59-60 “Let not the unbelievers think that they can get the better (of the godly). They will never frustrate (them). Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies of God and your enemies and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom God doth know …”
8:65 “O apostle! Rouse the believers to the fight. If there are twenty amongst you, patient and persevering, they will vanquish two hundred. If a hundred they will vanquish a thousand of the unbelievers, for these are a people without understanding.”
9:5 “… fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem (of war) …”
9:14 “Fight them, and God will punish them by your hands, cover them with shame …”
9:29 “Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and his apostle nor acknowledge the
Kanada-
Your example is that Catholicism was hundreds of years ago? Please...
Did you read the teachings? Stop being PC and think.
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Please, I'd love to hear about all these verses. Are they taken out of context or what?
Question #15:
I cannot handle normal stresses?
I have noticed lately that when my husband gets upset with me, my kids act up, or my mother calls I can get really really stressed. I feel sick, get anxious, heart starts to beat fast and I get lightheaded. Mind you my issues causing the stress symptoms are so minor it never would have bothered me before. So I tell hubby, I am getting upset you need to stop now. He seems to think I am avoiding issues and using my pregnancy as my excuse. The whole thing is really upsetting me. Granted I am nearing the end, and we can be just dealing with anxiety. Is anyone else feeling that their stress is effecting them more than normal?Question #16:
You're magically granted your own Pokemon for use in real life. Which do you choose?
Question #17:
Low GPA from non-degree granting school. Getting into law school?
I have a GPA of 1.2 from a school I did not get my undergrad degree from. I took the classes because I was bored, then I simply stopped going to the classes which resulted in 4 F's on the transcripts. Will the law schools count this against me?Just because there are no jobs NOW doesn't mean there won't be 4 years from now! It's called ECO 101. I suggest you take it.
Question #18:
A simple truth in poetic form, a rhymer no less! May I have your reactions, comments, critiques?
Are we not taught to thank the Lordfor all the blessings He affords?
We count them off as in a list:
health, home and food are never missed.
But not until our days are few
do we begin to have a clue
that all those days on bended knee
we used one gift as though 'twas free.
The gift of time spent in a day,
the fact we woke to work and play.
We took for granted life itself
and left our thanks on dusty shelf.
Take time today to know it's true,
the greatest gift He's given you,
the only one from start to end
is precious Life, thank Him, my friend.
Question #19:
Will you be voting and for whom?
Why not the BNP?They claim that:
"Britain has no right to dictate the internal politics or social configuration of any other nation. We would also expect all other nations to grant this same right to Britain.
We would have no quarrel with any nation that does not threaten British interests. In this regard, a BNP government will:
Reach an accord with the Muslim world whereby they will agree to take back their excess population which is currently colonising this country, in exchange for an ironclad guarantee that Britain will never again interfere in the political affairs of the Middle East or try to dictate to any Arab or Muslim country as to what their internal government form should be."
Also they want to introduce:
"...a system of voluntary resettlement whereby those immigrants who are legally here will be afforded the opportunity to return to their lands of ethnic origin assisted by a generous financial incentives both for individuals and for the countries in question."
I don't know where they will find the money to do all of this, but what do you think?
Question #20:
what does it mean to take life for granted?
and is living everyday your last really the best way to go?** Powered by Yahoo Answers