Do you agree?

A successful Christian business man was growing old and knew it was


time to


choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of


choosing


one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something


different.


He called all the young executives in his company together.





He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I


have


decided to choose one of you." The young executives were shocked, but


the


boss continued . "I am going to give each one of you a SEED today -


one


very special SEED. I want you to plant the seed, water it and come


back


here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have


given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I


choose will be the next CEO."





One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others,


received a


seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped


him


get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed. Everyday, he


would


water it and watch to see if it had grown.





After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk


about


their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept


checking


his seed, but nothing ever grew. Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks


went


by, still nothing. By now, others were talking about their plants, but


Jim


didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.





Six months went by - still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had


killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had


nothing. Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however. He just


kept


watering and fertilizing the soil - he so wanted the seed to grow.





A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company


brought


their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he


wasn't


going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what


happened. Jim felt sick at his stomach, it was going to be the most


embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right. He


took


his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the


variety of plants grown by the other executives. They were beautiful


-


in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many


of


his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!





When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young


executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. "My, what great


plants,


trees, and flowers you have grown," said the CEO. "Today one of you


will


be appointed the next CEO!" All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at


the


back of the room with his empty pot. He ordered the financial director


to


bring him to the front. Jim was terrified. He thought, "The CEO knows


I'm


a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!" When Jim got to the front,


the


CEO asked him what had happened to his Seed - Jim told him the story.





The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and


then


announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive!


His


name is Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his


seed.


How could he be the new CEO the others said?





Then the CEO said, "One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a


seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it and bring it


back to


me today. But, I gave you all boiled seeds - they were dead - it


was


not possible for them to grow. All of you, except Jim, have brought me


trees and plants and flowers.





When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another


seed


for the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and


honesty


to bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who


will be


the new Chief Executive!"





If you plant honesty, you will reap trust.


If you plant goodness, you will reap friends.


If you plant humility, you will reap greatness.


If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment.


If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective.


If you plant hard work, you will reap success.


If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation.





So, be careful what you plant now - it will determine what you will


reap


later.

Do you agree?
sorry i only read the first line :/ /

Earth Science Help?

Earth Science











11. One perfect cleavage, muscovite and biotite


hematite Kaolinite/Kaolin


garnets olivine


pyroxenes amphiboles


calcite feldspar


magnetite mica





12. Iron oxide, lodestone


hematite Kaolinite/Kaolin


garnets olivine


pyroxenes amphiboles


calcite feldspar


magnetite mica





13. Minerals of this family have cleavage surfaces that meet nearly at right angles.


hematite Kaolinite/Kaolin


garnets olivine


pyroxenes amphiboles


calcite feldspar


magnetite mica





14. Which of the following types of sedimentary rock is the least prominent?


shale conglomerate


limestone sandstone





15. _____ is sometimes known as "volcanic glass."


Granite Limestone


Obsidian Marble





16. When the plant cover is removed from an area, making the bare soil easily removable by wind and rain, _____ is said to have occurred.


desertification soil depletion


salinization none of these answers is correct








18. This problem occurs in desert areas when the evaporated rain water leaves behind a layer of minerals, making crop growth nearly impossible.


desertification soil depletion


salinization none of these answers is correct








19. The average change in elevation over a given distance is known as _____.


contour elevation


average slope gradient





20. Which is NOT a method of remote sensing?


Landsat imaging ground surveying


imaging radar photogrammetry





23. The distance between two contour lines indicates:


how far apart the areas are the steepness of an area


the elevation of the area the composition of the land area





26. In the water budget, what occurs when rainfall exceeds the need for moisture and the soil is saturated?


usage deficit


recharge surplus





27. Where is most of Earth's fresh water located?


icecaps and glaciers lakes and swamps


oceans and seas streams and rivers





28. The formation of a mineral deposit around a spring is LEAST likely to occur if the local groundwater:


comes from rainfall is very hot


passes through salt beds contains large quantities of gases





29. This occurs when water soaks into the ground and becomes part of the soil water supply:


recharge impermeable


geysers usage


evapotranspiration porosity


deficit hydrosphere


water table aquifer





30. This is the surface of the zone of saturation:


recharge impermeable


geysers usage


evapotranspiration porosity


deficit hydrosphere


water table aquifer

Earth Science Help?
I dont know, but if you want to view free satellite images of earth in 3d you can find it here http://xearth.co.nr

Bush a true orator?

"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005





"If it were to rain a lot, there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees might break. And so, therefore, we're cautious about encouraging people to return at this moment of history." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2005





"Listen, I want to thank leaders of the — in the faith — faith-based and community-based community for being here." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 2005





"So please give cash money to organizations that are directly involved in helping save lives — save the life who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina." —George W. Bush, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2005





"I can't wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs." —George W. Bush, Poplarville, Miss., Sept. 5, 2005





"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." —George W. Bush, to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his job performance, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Listen to audio; read more stupid quotes about Hurricane Katrina)





"We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." (Laughter) --George W. Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005





"My thoughts are, we're going to get somebody who knows what they're talking about when it comes to rebuilding cities." —George W. Bush, on rebuilding New Orleans, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 2, 2005





"Americans should be prudent in their use of energy during the course of the next few weeks. Don't buy gas if you don't need it." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2005





"It's totally wiped out. ... It's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground." —George W. Bush, turning to his aides while surveying Hurricane Katrina flood damage from Air Force One , Aug. 31, 2005





"The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who's spending time investigating it." —George W. Bush, on the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity was leaked, Washington D.C., July 18, 2005





"I'm looking forward to a good night's sleep on the soil of a friend." —George W. Bush, on visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005





"I was going to say he's a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a 'piece of work'?" —George W. Bush to Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005


"The relations with, uhh — Europe are important relations, and they've, uhh — because, we do share values. And, they're universal values, they're not American values or, you know — European values, they're universal values. And those values — uhh — being universal, ought to be applied everywhere." —George W. Bush, at a press conference with European Union dignitaries, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005





"You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war." —George W. Bush, on the Sept. 11 attacks, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005





"And the second way to defeat the terrorists is to spread freedom. You see, the best way to defeat a society that is — doesn't have hope, a society where people become so angry they're willing to become suiciders, is to spread freedom, is to spread democracy." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005


"It seemed like to me they based some of their decisions on the word of — and the allegations — by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people that had been trained in some instances to disassemble — that means not tell the truth." —George W. Bush, on an Amnesty International report on prisoner abuse at Guantanamo Bay, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2005 (Listen to audio)





"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 (Listen to audio)





"We discussed the way forward in Iraq, discussed the importance of a democracy in the greater Middle East in order to leave behind a peaceful tomorrow." —George W. Bush, Tbilisi, Georgia, May 10, 2005





"I think younger workers — first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government — promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 4, 2005





"It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow. And that's important." —George W. Bush, on what private accounts could do for Social Security funds, Falls Church, Va., April 29, 2005








"I can only speak to myself." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives — like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write." —George W. Bush, on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"He understands the need for a timely write of the constitution." —George W. Bush, on Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"Well, we've made the decision to defeat the terrorists abroad so we don't have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"But Iraq has — have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005





"I appreciate my love for Laura." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2005





"We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2005





"Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you're going to do about it." —George W. Bush, Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005





"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me." —George W. Bush, Washington D.C., April 14, 2005





"We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make — it would hope — put a free press's mind at ease that you're not being denied information you shouldn't see." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005





"I want to thank you for the importance that you've shown for education and literacy." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005





"I understand there's a suspicion that we—we're too security-conscience." —George W. Bush, Washington D.C., April 14, 2005





"If they pre-decease or die early, there's an asset base to be able to pass on to a loved one." —George W. Bush, on Social Security money held in private accounts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 30, 2005





[I'm] occasionally reading, I want you to know, in the second term." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005





"In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'" —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005





"In terms of timetables, as quickly as possible — whatever that means." —George W. Bush, on his time frame for shoring up Social Security, Washington D.C., March 16, 2005





"I like the idea of people running for office. There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America. I don't know, I don't know if that will be their platform or not. But it's -- I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table." —George W. Bush, on elections in the Middle East, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005





"I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution." —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005





"This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous. And having said that, all options are on the table." —George W. Bush, Brussels, Belgium, Feb. 22, 2005





"If you're a younger person, you ought to be asking members of Congress and the United States Senate and the president what you intend to do about it. If you see a train wreck coming, you ought to be saying, what are you going to do about it, Mr. Congressman, or Madam Congressman?" —George W. Bush, Detroit, Mich., Feb. 8, 2005





"Because the — all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those — changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be — or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the — like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate — the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those — if that growth is affected, it will help on the red." —George W. Bush, explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005





"You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." —George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio)





"After all, Europe is America's closest ally." —George W. Bush, Mainz, Germany, Feb. 23, 2005





"Because he's hiding." —George W. Bush, responding to a reporter who asked why Osama bin Laden had not been caught, aboard Air Force One, Jan. 14, 2005





"I'm also mindful that man should never try to put words in God's mouth. I mean, we should never ascribe natural disasters or anything else to God. We are in no way, shape, or form should a human being, play God." —George W. Bush, ABC's 20/20, Washington D.C., Jan. 14, 2005





"I want to appreciate those of you who wear our nation's uniform for your sacrifice." —George W. Bush, Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14, 2005








"I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something." —George W. Bush, speaking to reporters, Washington, D.C., Jan. 14, 2005





"Who could have possibly envisioned an erection — an election in Iraq at this point in history?" —George W. Bush, at the white House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005





"We need to apply 21st-century information technology to the health care field. We need to have our medical records put on the I.T." —George W. Bush, Collinsville, Ill., Jan. 5, 2005





"I believe we are called to do the hard work to make our communities and quality of life a better place." —George W. Bush, Collinsville, Ill., Jan. 5, 2005





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Bush a true orator?
Clinton was a classic orator, very engaging! And a horrible president.





Bush speaks from the heart. he stumbles on his words occassionally, and often mispeaks, because he spends time tackling issues instead of practicing in front of the camera at being a politician. If you want an orator, hire a spokesperson!


If you want a leader, elect a President. Thak God for Bush!!
Reply:where has Pres. Bush lead us?


What does the rest of the world think of our government's


actions? Report Abuse

Reply:And that's just a handful.... There are entire year long calendars with multiple Bushisms on each page.... SIGH
Reply:By contrast, Adolf Hitler was a mesmerizing speaker.





Not every one is a public speaker. I speak publicly for a living, and it's not easy. Every single word out of Bush's mouth is dissected by the media and the left, which puts that much more pressure on him.





His ability to speak is not really a reflection of intellect. Are you a perfect speaker? Have you ever been elected President. Twice.
Reply:Classic!!!!!! my dog speaks better english than that fool!!!!!
Reply:We all realize that President Bush is not a great orator.


Everyone has strength's and weaknesses.





Not everyone can be a Ronald W. Reagan.





Closing Note: I did not realize this was an advertising forum.
Reply:His words are stupid, but his deeds are terrible.





We are punished for having more than half of electorate grown up on cheap pop culture and aggressive religion. A country must have at least 51% well educated thinking people.





Humbly hope that US will survive after his rule.

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Russia and the CIS map questions?

Please help me answer all or some of the answers. I was absent for class and there was an atlas activity. Now I have nothing to get the answers off of. Please help. Thanks





1. The Europe Environments and the world Ecoregions maps clearly illustrate the vegetation belts that cross the region from north to south. Using 50 degrees E longitude as you guide, name and briefly describe each environment: what is growing all around you as you survey the landscape? WHY is this happening? (world soils/climate regions)





2. Travel from St. Petersburg to Kiev, Ukraine. What prominent landform are you crossing?


Travel from Yekaterinburg to Novosibirsk. Three landforms traversed are?


What characterizes much of the land north of the city of Novosibirsk?





3. Characterize the look of the land between:


the Urals and the Yenisey River


the Yenisey and the Lena R.


the Lena and Bering Strait


the Urals and Russia's western border

Russia and the CIS map questions?
Now you have nothing to get the answers off of? I would not want answers from anyone who would believe that story.





Online atlas: http://encarta.msn.com/





Goode's maps: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/pro...





Every one of your questions is answered on these two links. Now you can do your makeup work yourself.

How to find out if my house is earthquake resistant or not?

It is built on loose black soil which cracks in summers and absorbs a lot of water during monsoon. It appears that our new house is tilted (by few cms) during last 4 monsoons it has seen. It is a two story house. We do not have the documents (technical details) of the foundation and structure. The ones that were provided are fake (which is quite normal in India).





Is there an agency/company in central India (Bhopal) which does the survey and declares the safety of houses? If yes what is that agency? Does it have a website?


I could not find anything useful on National Disaster Management website http://www.ndmindia.nic.in/


Thanks in advance for any help!


Vijay

How to find out if my house is earthquake resistant or not?
A "stud finder" from the hardware store may tell you things about what is inside the walls, and ground penetrating radar may help you determine things about the foundation and soil depth. After you build diagrams of what you have, you might be able to find an architect to decide what good it is in an earthquake, or how to strengthen it. An architect might do the drawings too, if you pay a little more.





If other structures in your area are of similar construction, you may be able to sell your work to them, or mine their owner/occupants for information. Fire or demolition may also give you opportunity to learn.





http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/india/se...


is a map of seismic zones (how bad earthquakes would be)


from


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en%26amp;q=sei...
Reply:wait for one to come.. and test in the really true conditions

Islam will win godless West without war or bombs, first Muslim son Obama in USA, then mosques in Europe?true?

after Kenyan Muslim son %26amp; Indonesian Muslim stepson Barack Hussein Obama wins USA Presidency this November, will Islam win over the rest of Europe since many Westerners are godless agnostics and not producing kids too, so Muslims can migrate all over Europe and USA to help save Western civilization from godlessness and moral decay? long live Barack Hussein Obama, will this be the cry of celebration of all Muslims of the world if he wins against Hillary Clinton and wins Nov. election?





more Muslim mosques for Europe and USA? Obama said he will pull out USA troops immediateky in Iraq, another victory for militant pure Islam?





Germany's Biggest Mosque Spurs Fear of `Islamization' of Europe





By Seda Sezer





April 3 (Bloomberg) -- The twin spires of Germany's largest Gothic cathedral will soon be joined on the Cologne skyline by the minarets of the country's biggest mosque.





The $23 million Ehrenfeld Central Mosque, scheduled to be completed in about two years, will help bring Islam out of the back streets and reduce the influence of radicals, Mayor Fritz Schramma says. Others see the building as a symbol of Islamic extremism and further evidence that Cologne's 120,000 Muslims, more than half of them Turkish immigrants, refuse to integrate.





``I pray at the little chapel next to the Cologne Cathedral, and my prayer doesn't become more valuable if I pray in the big cathedral,'' said Laszlu Reischl, 56, a taxi driver. ``I don't understand why they insist on building a big mosque.''





The controversy reflects Germany's struggle over almost five decades to incorporate its largest ethnic minority. Tensions were revived in February when Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Turks at a Cologne rally that ``assimilation is a crime against humanity.'' Some lawmakers who oppose mostly Muslim Turkey's bid to join the European Union accused him of preaching Turkish nationalism on German soil.





Cologne has Germany's highest concentration of Muslims, at 12 percent of the population. The new mosque will be built in the immigrant district of Ehrenfeld, about two miles from the 13th- century Cologne Cathedral.





The 53,800-square-foot building will fit 1,200 worshippers. It will replace a converted pharmaceutical warehouse that has housed the mosque since 1984 and holds about half as many people. Many spill into the parking lot during Friday prayers.





Permanently Here





``When our fathers came here, they rented the least expensive place to pray,'' says Mehmet Gunet, legal adviser to the Cologne-based Turkish Islamic Union for Religious Affairs. ``We are permanently here and we want more beautiful prayer houses.''





German architect Paul Boehm, who has worked on local churches, won a contest to design the mosque. The building consists of curved concrete walls connected to a central dome by glass to convey openness and transparency.





The two 55-meter (180 feet) minarets will be about a third as high as the cathedral spires. The complex will also house offices, restaurants and shops.





``We want to show that Muslims can live in peace in a society,'' Gunet says. ``We are coming out of hidden places and saying, `We are here, you can come and look in.'''





`Parallel Society'





The Islamic Union, a group of Imams and theologians appointed by the Turkish government's Religious Affairs authority, is awaiting final planning approval and expects construction to begin in June.





Opposition to the mosque has been spearheaded by the Pro Cologne citizens initiative, which holds five seats in the town parliament. Over the past two years, the group has circulated petitions and leaflets and held rallies against the project.





The mosque will allow local Turks to slip further into a ``parallel society,'' where many don't even speak German, says Manfred Rouhs, a Pro Cologne representative.





``It's a symbol of Islamization in Europe and the failure of integration,'' Rouhs says. ``It's a danger to our European way of living.''





About 60 percent of Cologne residents oppose a large mosque with minarets, according to a July survey by Koelner Stadt- Anzeiger, the city's biggest newspaper.





Headscarf Hairdresser





Turks first came to Germany in the 1960s, when they were invited in to help ease a postwar labor shortage. There are about 3 million ethnic Turks in Germany today.





On Ehrenfeld's main shopping street, some Turkish stores offer special services, such as the hairdresser with private rooms for women with headscarves. A barber provides Turkish tea fresh from the samovar, an urn traditionally used to heat water.





Uneasiness about the mosque reflects Germany's ``Islamophobia, racism and xenophobia,'' says Mehmet Yildirim, general secretary of the Islamic Union.





``This society didn't have much of a relationship with different cultures and religions in the past, and they have prejudices and worries,'' Yildirim says.





Mayor Schramma says the mosque will help build trust and public acceptance of Islam.





``What Erdogan meant was assimilation by force, and we don't have that here in Germany,'' he says. ``We want to end the separation, but it must not come from the top down.''





Speak German





The Islamic Union has been open to negotiation, agreeing to reduce the size of the prayer area, to conduct the prayer call through indoor speakers, and to offer half of the shops to German business owners, Schramma says.





``The next step is that the language in the mosque in time will be German,'' the mayor says. ``The second- and third- generation, which were born here, should be ready to accept that as their mother language.''





Claus Moskopp, 52, an Ehrenfeld florist, points out that the minarets won't even be as high as the nearby 243-meter Deutsche Telekom AG tower.





``We had this mosque here as it is for a long time and no one said anything, but minarets bother people,'' he says. ``It doesn't bother me because the minarets will match the city landscape.''

Islam will win godless West without war or bombs, first Muslim son Obama in USA, then mosques in Europe?true?
The greatest fear the radical Islamists should have regarding their cause, is the day the good old boys in the US of A decide to play cowboys and radicals.
Reply:Where did you get this jaberwocky from. obviously another dimension
Reply:Yahoo! Answers Guidlines:


1) Questions may NOT include:


Profanity or personal attacks to any member or group(s) associated with Yahoo!Answers.





Propaganda.





Just joking... :)


But the point is, is that you shouldn't post nonsensical propaganda on Y! Answers.
Reply:Very frightening indeed!
Reply:next youll be telling us that our prairies will be filled with grazing camel
Reply:You're a freak who has poor language skills. That's why you rely on copying/pasting quotes to fill up the space on this nonsensical rant.
Reply:"I think that the truth spreads itself out in any way, as the circumstances require. Did you not see how Christianity used the sword sometimes? It is enough to know what Sharlman did to the Saxon tribes. I do not pay attention to whether truth is spread by the sword, the tongue, or in any other way. Let us leave the truth dominate by words, press or fighting…. Let us leave it struggle and fight with its hands, legs, and nails because it will never be defeated. Nothing will be defeated unless it deserves that..."


check this site : http://www.rasoulallah.net/subject_en.as...
Reply:Right, except the Islamic faith will never take over the US, seen as how we have separation of church and state. But keep trying.. The US is a battle you will never win. I would never convert Islam and there's millions of other Americans that think the same way.





Islam is nothing more than a religion of terror... now stop posting this propaganda... it gonna get you suspended.

I am an alternative health practitioner and I'd like to know what your greatest concerns are-?

toxic chemicals in food, water, air (and fear in the air:%26gt;) and personal care products, lack of awareness about alternatives to the Western health model, emotional (dis)-stress, loss of nutritive value in our food due to depleted soil, anything. What would you all most like to learn about re. your health, responsibility for it etc. How much responsibility do you think the typical American wants to take for their health? What causes the most discomfort--physical, emotional, mental etc.


I want to be able to put together a survey for visitors to my website and thought that a large community like this one would be able to give me lots of input.


I really appreciate the time and thought you put into this.

I am an alternative health practitioner and I'd like to know what your greatest concerns are-?
Geez, where do i start!! Everything you've already mentioned ...... our food is substandard and "preserved" with a diabolical amount of chemicals, our water is "preserved" and chlorinated and fluoridated to within an inch of it's life, our personal care products are heavily laden with "preserving" chemicals, our stress levels are generally through the roof and people think the best way to deal with stress is to anaethatise themselves with either grog/antidepressants/drugs ........ all of which rob us of essential nutrients and vitamins and minerals ....... we are polluting our environment at an alarming rate and will more than likely leave a miserable mess for our grandkids (more likely our kids) to cope with............ our world is an unholy mess and pretty much anything that you can put out there that addresses any of these issues will have a huge impact. Sorry, i ramble and i've digressed .......... dealing with stress issues and information on how important it is to hydrate your body with "fresh" %26amp; "clean water" free from chlorination and fluoride would be a good place to start i reckon.





A world without stress and dehydration would be a fabulous place to start.... :0)








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Reply:I am an electric therapist here in the Philippines,I can treat or rehab patients candidate for bypass operation,if the patient chooses not to undergo bypass operation she or he can try electric therapy .Some people want to try alternative therapy maybe I could be of help,not only stroke patients even if you are suffering from rheumatism,muscle pains,insomia etc..electric therapy maybe the answer .Please feel free to email at cecilio624@yahoo.com .
Reply:I would be willing to do a poll or survery if you put one up on your website and tell me how to get there.





I can be emailed.
Reply:I believe that the nutritional value of food in general is depleted by pollution, chemicals in the soil, preservative methods, over-cooking foods (microwaves) - and we generally receive 35% less nutritional value compared to 30 years ago. Too many commercialized crops forcing the little guys out of business.





I also believe that the pharmacy companies are making billions of dollars promoting the "sickness industry." I, for one, don't want to be tied to 'maintenance prescriptions' for the rest of my life.





I am not sick, but did research on alternative methods to up my nutrition. I am taking Himalayan Goji Juice which provides all of the necessary nutrition that our body requires in order to maintain my health. It absorbs directly into my system, and I am feeling better than ever!





Three cheers to the forthcoming "Wellness Industry!"
Reply:I am concerned with everything you mentioned but a big concern for me is how the pharmaceudical companies push the drugs to the Doctors that prescribe them and then they turn out to do more harm than good.I don't trust prescription drugs and therefore turn to alternative medicine.Besides the rising cost of even going to a doctor is scary.I went to a Doctor for a blood test the other day and it was $200.00.I would like to know all the new things that can be done so we can take care of our own health.I truly believe alot of our problems are due to some kind of deficiencies in our diet and the toxins added to it.
Reply:You seem to be a pretty sharp individual. Natural remedies is the way to go! www.drinklifein.com . You will be amazed since you practice alternative health.





jaysonswain@gmail.com
Reply:I love the concept of people taking personal responsibility for their health, with advice from people like you. The biggest problem is philospohical in nature. If you HAVE a disease, people understand going to the doctor and taking pills. But when they DON'T have a disease they have trouble getting the motivation to take appropriate preventive measures. To me preventive measures should be "the moral equivalent of war" because the price of not doing this stuff is exceedingly high. For instance, every cell in your body has the potential of becoming cancerous if your immune system becomes compromised. But when you start talking about this stuff people accuse you of being a paranoid fearmonger, tell you to lighten up and get a life. I don't mind because I will quietly get my revenge by outliving them by many years.





I hope you diligently research and promote getting enough Vitamin D from sunlight. I have read dozens of articles online pointing to Vitamin D as a preventative for virtually every major killer disease. Mainstream medicine is grudingly acknowledging its effect but it is obvious they don't like such a powerful agent for good health that cuts them out of the loop. But as an alternative practicioner this should be right up your alley.





Most people in my circle of friends understand it is up to them to make proper lifestyle choices to PREVENT disease rather than paying the doctor to close the barn door after the horse escaped.





Best of luck with your website and your mission.
Reply:If the soil was depleted.. how can the food grow?


We eat what the plant gets out of the soil, it doesn't matter how bad the soil is depleted.


The only thing I'm concerned about is pesticides.


In Mexico they use the stuff that's banned here in the states, then ship the food here.


This has to stop or they have to stop using that crap.

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Majority of Americans favor attacking Iran, is that so?

Zogby: Majority Favor Strikes on Iran





Monday, October 29, 2007 9:47 PM





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A majority of likely voters - 52 percent - would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53 percent believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows.








The survey results come at a time of increasing U.S. scrutiny of Iran. According to reports from the Associated Press, earlier this month Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran of "lying" about the aim of its nuclear program and Vice President Dick Cheney has raised the prospect of "serious consequences" if the U.S. were to discover Iran was attempting to devolop a nuclear weapon. Last week, the Bush administration also announced new sanctions against Iran.








Democrats (63 percent) are most likely to believe a U.S. military strike against Iran could take place in the relatively near future, but independents (51 percent) and Republicans (44 percent) are less likely to agree. Republicans, however, are much more likely to be supportive of a strike (71 percent), than Democrats (41 percent) or independents (44 percent). Younger likely voters are more likely than those who are older to say a strike is likely to happen before the election and women (58 percent) are more likely than men (48 percent) to say the same – but there is little difference in support for a U.S. strike against Iran among these groups.








When asked which presidential candidate would be best equipped to deal with Iran – regardless of whether or not they expected the U.S. to attack Iran – 21 percent would most like to see New York U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton leading the country, while 15 percent would prefer former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and 14 percent would want Arizona U.S. Sen. John McCain in charge. Another 10 percent said Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would be best equipped to deal with Iran, while Republican Fred Thompson (5 percent), Democrat John Edwards (4 percent) and Republican Mitt Romney (3 percent) were less likely to be viewed as the best leaders to help the U.S. deal with Iran. The telephone poll of 1,028 likely voters nationwide was conducted Oct. 24-27, 2007 and carries a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points.








Clinton leads strongly among Democrats on the issue, with 35 percent saying she is best equipped to deal with Iran, while 17 percent would prefer Obama and 7 percent view John Edwards as the best choice. Giuliani is the top choice of Republicans (28 percent), followed by McCain (21 percent) and Fred Thompson (9 percent). One in five independents chose Clinton (21 percent) over McCain (16 percent) and Giuliani (11 percent). Clinton was the top choice among women (24 percent), while 14 percent would be more confident with Giuliani in the White House and 11 percent would prefer McCain. Men slightly prefer McCain (18 percent) to Clinton (17 percent) on this issue, while 15 percent said Giuliani is best equipped to deal with Iran. The survey also shows there is a significant amount of uncertainty if any of the long list of declared candidates would be best equipped to deal the Iran – 19 percent overall said they weren’t sure which candidate to choose.








There is considerable division about when a strike on Iran should take place – if at all. Twenty-eight percent believe the U.S. should wait to strike until after the next president is in office while 23 percent would favor a strike before the end of President Bush’s term. Another 29 percent said the U.S. should not attack Iran, and 20 percent were unsure. The view that Iran should not be attacked by the U.S. is strongest among Democrats (37 percent) and independents, but fewer than half as many Republicans (15 percent) feel the same. But Republicans are also more likely to be uncertain on the issue (28 percent).








As the possibility the U.S. my strike Iran captures headlines around the world, many have given thought to the possibility of an attack at home. Two in three (68 percent) believe it is likely that the U.S. will suffer another significant terrorist attack on U.S. soil comparable to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 – of those, 27 percent believe such an attack is very likely. Nearly one in three (31 percent) believe the next significant attack will occur between one and three years from now, 22 percent said they believe the next attack is between three and five years away, and 15 percent said they don’t think the U.S. will be attacked on U.S. soil for at least five years or longer. Just 9 percent believe a significant terrorist attack will take place in the U.S. before the next presidential election.

Majority of Americans favor attacking Iran, is that so?
The majority of sheeple more like -- no surprise there.
Reply:and what percent are in favor of getting bogged down in another multi-trillion dollar civil war/occupation/quagmire with no end in sight?
Reply:One cannot answer this question because the meaning of 'American' isn't clear:





- A person or attribute of South or North America


- A person or attribute of the indigenous peoples of South or North America


- A citizen or attribute of the ’United States of America’: the political correct term


is 'US-American'
Reply:I can't speak for everyone, but I am utterly and totally against attacking Iran. We can't even handle Iraq and Afghanistan as it is. How are we going to be able to handle adding Iran into the mix? It would be a military, political, and economic nightmare.





Considering that the % of people who still support the Iraqi war is so small now, I find this hard to believe. Who did this poll? What were their methods? What kind of sample did they use? I'm willing to bet that it was inaccurate. In fact, I'd almost guarantee it.
Reply:I don't want to attack Iran. But I do want them to be compliant with nuclear inspectors and I don't want a religious zealot state to have a nuclear weapon. I hate war, but I hate psychotic regimes more.
Reply:It won't happen because of all the vitriol against this president by liberals and democrats we have basically been neutered in taking any pre-emptive strikes against anyone. Love the thinking and answer from Subprime reminds me of the media reporter statement during president Nixon election she was astonish that he won ,because no one she spoke to voted for him.
Reply:I support. As long as it's not me doing the attacking.
Reply:That's such a huge swing in such a short time that I wouldn't consider it reliable.





In a CNN poll from Oct 12 to 14, 68% of Americans opposed a military strike against Iran and only 29% approved of a military strike. This was in spite of the fact that 77% believed Iran was attempting to build nuclear weapons and 82% believed Iran was supplying weaons to Iraqi insurgents. The percentage opposing a military strike stayed in the 60's for for the first 9 1/2 months of the year. It's hard to fathom what would cause a 23% swing in opinion for a military strike in just two weeks.





In a Fox news poll at the end of Sep, 29% approved of taking military action now, while 54% approved of letting Bush's successor deal with Iran.
Reply:That's a load of feces. I count my colleagues, family and friends and they do not support any such thing.
Reply:im for giving all our land to Canada except for texas and all that was stolen from Mexico. That will be returned to Mexico.
Reply:I think a percentage of Americans are finally realizing that Iran is the bedrock and main supporter of radical Islam and we'll never be successful unless we deal with the Iranian problem. Considering we occupy two countries on either side of Iran, I think the powers that be have always known that.
Reply:If America consists of only Fox news and CNN employees, then your answer is yes.





If you are talking about real American's - the obvious answer is no.





You have to be a crazed Christian extremist waiting for the Rapture to want war with Iran (Russia)
Reply:I support, but I really doubt the majority are with me on this. I would have to see other polls. Most Americans pay no regard or mind to neither history nor current events.





The truth is that Iran declared war on us in 1979 when they stormed our embassy and took our hostages, called us the Great Satan have backed and financed terrorists attacks against our fellow citizens and currently our soldiers in Iraq. They have declared war on us whether we have acknowledged it or not.





And now they are a only a year or two from acquiring a nuclear weapon. . .





GO GET 'EM!!!!!
Reply:If it keeps those lunatics from getting their hands on nukes then I'm all for it! I say let them learn about nukes by nuking them!
Reply:Is this coming from the same sources that led us to rally behind the current invasion?





Ir_n would be foolish to set off a bomb and get bombed--they are not stupid. We or let's say certain big-wigs want their territory.

Has this ever happened to you?

I was sitting in a waiting room in a Seattle high-rise office building some time ago, when the urge hit me to take a dump. Unfortunately, the restrooms were on the other side of the building and I doubted that I could make it there in time. Since the waiting room was empty of other people, I walked over to the window and opened it. I pulled my pants down, bent over and backed up to the window.





The feces flew forth with a considerable amount of force, what with the gas pockets assisting in the delivery. Considering that it was in a mushy liquid type of form, it squirted out easily for the delivery, without any splattering on the window sill. Though I was five stories up, I could hear the shrieks and shouts from below.





After I had finished, I wiped myself clean with the curtains and pulled my pants back up. I looked out the window to survey the damage below. Quite a few people had been soiled, all of whom were looking back up at me.

Has this ever happened to you?
Why, yes; it HAS happened to me! Only difference; the window I was in had no curtains, so I used the leaf of a nearby plant.
Reply:you are funny Report Abuse

Reply:only if you were waiting to interview on the howard stern show( no offense to howard)
Reply:What a vivid, if somewhat distasteful, imagination you have.
Reply:Dude you are so nasty.
Reply:That's quite disgusting.


I actually don't know why I kept reading after "I walked over to the window and opened it..."


You have one weird imagination!
Reply:Umm ok That is a very werid stituation why didn't you just run I would of tryed to make it to the bathroom the making others mad
Reply:scary
Reply:No, but thanks for the laugh. Keep on poopin'!
Reply:Grow up.
Reply:so your the bastard who crapped on my ferrari?!? just wait till i get my hands on you...
Reply:You have serious social problems dude!!!





SEEK HELP!!
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Reply:i wouldn't share that story with anyone else ever again.
Reply:what is wrong with you? Imagine the story the guy who got hit has "how was your day honny" "Some asshole shitted on me. there has to be a law against that. Oh how bout defacing private property [the curtins] unorderly contact, not taking your mental pills prescribed by a doctor. you better be bullshitting me
Reply:That is absolutely appalling! I hope that was just a joke.
Reply:No, this has NEVER happened to me.


You are one sick puppy! I bet you like to get dumped on yourself!
Reply:what?

Some more bizarre facts?

happy reading lol.








*According to sales, 17,000 individual 'smarties' are eaten every minute in the UK


*The life of an eyelash is about 5 months.


*Iceland, Europe's second largest island following Great Britain, boasts of having the world's oldest 'active' parliamentary body, Althing, which first met in 930AD.


*The Turkish football club, Galatasaray, has an A for every other letter.


*The tongue of a mature Blue Whale has approximately the same mass as that of an entire adult elephant.


*The study, which tested telephones, desks, water coolers, doorknobs, and toilet seats, compiled 7,000 samples from major centers across the country. What they found, was that while phones ranked highest in bacteria levels, the office desk was a close second.


*In England during World War I, many German names and titles were changed and given more English-sounding names, including the royal family's from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Kaiser Wilhelm II countered this by jokingly saying that he was off to see a performance of 'The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.'


*Both turdoid and turdine mean "belonging to the family turdus," Turdus musicus is the song thrush %26amp; Turdus viscivorus is the mistletoe thrush


*Nearly a quarter of all mammals can fly; with a huge 985 known species, bats make up 23.1% of all known mammals by species


*January is National Soup Month in the United States, January is the seasonal equivalent to July in the Southern Hemisphere; %26amp; on Jan 14th, 90% of New Year resolutions will be broken!


*You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown and you use an average of 17 muscles for a smile, and they say every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle


*Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms in the first 14 nestling days of their life and that is not even their main food on the menu (14 feet a day is wrong) But parent robins make around 100 food visits to the nest every day!


*The first man to die during planning %26amp; construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.


* You will have to walk 80 kilometers for your legs to equal the amount of exercise your eyes get daily


*The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification back in 700


*Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than it does through the air


*A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday


*There are more mobile phones in UK than there are people


*Termites are affected by music; the termites will eat your house twice as fast if you play them loud music


*Paraskavedekatriaphobia is the extreme fear of Friday the 13th


*One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!


*Christopher Trace, the first presenter of Blue Peter, was the body double for Charlton Heston in the film Ben-Hur


*Thomas Edison got patents for a method of making concrete furniture and a cigar which was supposed to burn forever


*A cubic mile of ordinary fog contains less than a gallon of water


*If you think of the Milky Way as being the size of the continent of Asia, our solar system would be the size of a penny.


*The chicken is the closest living relative to the Tyrannosaurus Rex Myth or fact??


*The average driver will be locked out of their car nine times during their life time (yes, men are in the stats)


*A Boeing 767 airliner contains 3,100,000 parts


* Belief in the existence of vacuums used to be punishable under Church law


* Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain


*An owl can see a mouse moving from over 150ft away by a light no brighter than candlelight


*The average person has walked 100,000 miles by the time they reach the age of 85.


*Your hearing is less sharp after eating too much


*In the course of a lifetime, the average person spends 2 years on the phone (I bet cell phones/mobiles were not taken into consideration when that fact was worked out!!)


* Henry VIII was once served a loin of beef while visiting the house of a noble. He was so impressed with the beef that he asked for a sword and knighted it! Ever since, that particular cut of beef has been known as sirloin. ("Sir Loin").. This is a MYTH


*In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.


*Beethoven was extremely particular about his coffee , he always counted 60 beans per cup.


*In 1943, Navy officer Grace Hopper had to fix a computer glitch caused by a moth, hence the term 'computer bug'.


*Jupiter is large enough to contain the other major 7 planets in our solar system.


*The water pressure inside every onion cell would be sufficient to explode a steam engine.


*Sunglasses were first worn by film stars, not to look mysterious, but to relieve there eyes from the dazzling glare of the early studio lights


*If you take any number, double it, add 10, divide by 2, and subtract your original number, the answer will always be 5.


*Over a 12 day period your body generates a whole new set of taste buds. (This process continues until you are in your 70's.)


*Greyhounds can reach their top speed of 45 mph in just 3 strides


*There is more sugar in 1kg of lemons than in 1kg of strawberries.


*Paraskevidekatriaphobia, is a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims, when you can pronounce the word you are cured. Friggatriskaidekaphobia has the same meaning.


*American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first class


*Titan arum is probably the world's smelliest flower. Originating in the tropical rain forests of Sumatra, this huge, extremely rare flower is a giant lily. It seldom blooms, but when it does the smell is described as something like the dead carcass of an animal


*A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer


*Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day.


*Turtles can breath through their bottoms.


*Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.


*The buzz generated by an electric razor in America is in the key of B flat. In the UK, it is in the key of G.


*Some of the most popular lipstick shades in Renaissance England were named, Rat, Horseflesh, Turkey, Blood and Puke.


*When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford captured his dying breath in a bottle.


*Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.


*The first flying-trapeze circus act was performed by Frenchman Jules Leotard at the Circus Napoleon on Nov 12th 1859. He invented the garment now known as the leotard.


*In 1972 when Gordon Brown (British Chancellor of the Excheque) was 21, he won a Daily Express competition for "A Vision of Britain In The Year 2000."


*It is said, grapefruit scent makes middle age women seem six years younger to men (but it does not work the other way round).


*The average elephant produces 50lb of dung a day.


*The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park came from slowing down the sounds of elephants, geese and horses.


*The French invented the pop of the Christmas Cracker in the 19th century (Tom Smith bought the idea back to UK after holidaying in France)


*The chances of hitting 2 holes-in-one during the same round of golf is one in 8 million


*Victorian ladies tried to enlarge their boobs by bathing in strawberries


*Until the 18th century, India produced almost all the world's diamonds


*The ancient Egyptians thought it was good luck to enter a house left foot first


*During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room


* The average single man is one inch shorter than the average married man


*Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet of which 80% are in-cloud flashes and 20% are cloud-to-ground flashes.


*When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker (on Bonfire Day), she locked him out of their bedroom, the marriage lasted only six hours


*160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road. On paper they can, as the road (actually it's an avenue) is 865 feet wide, but in reality they can't.


*When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the off-spring is called a mule; but when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the off spring is called a HINNY


*On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000


*Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair


*While in Alcatraz, Al Capone was inmate No.85


*Disney World is bigger than the world's 5 smallest countries


*A house fly hums in the middle octave key of F


*Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor


*In one gram of soil, about ten million bacteria live in it


*A single ounce of gold can be beaten into a thin film covering 100 square feet


*Before the 1800, there were no separately designed shoes for left and right feet


*Paper was invented early in the second century by Chinese eunuch


*The first person to receive a singing telegram was singer Rudy Vallee, in honour of his 32nd birthday, July 28th 1933.


* The longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched


*In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase, "Goodnight, sleep tight."


*There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball


*A 75-year-old male driver received ten traffic tickets, drove on the wrong side of the road four times, committed four hit-and-run offenses and caused six accidents, all within 20 minutes, in McKinney, TX on 15 Oct 1966 [Worst driver: G. B. of Records]


*The term "the whole 9 yards" came from WWII fighter pilots in the South Pacific. When arming their airplanes on the ground, the .50 caliber machine gun ammo belts measured exactly 27 feet, before being loaded into the fuselage. If the pilots fired all their ammo at a target, it got "the whole 9 yards."


*Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Shaghoopal


*The word "trivia" comes from the Latin "trivium" which is the place where three roads meet. People would gather and talk about all sorts of matters. Also in medieval universities, the trivium comprised the three subjects taught first, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, AND the Roman Goddess, Trivia, is the goddess of crossroads, witchcraft and the harvest moon.


*In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.


*During lunch breaks in Carlsbad, New Mexico no couple should engage in a sexual act while parked in their vehicle, unless their car has curtains.


*The distance between cities are actually the distances between city halls. When you see a sign "Sheffield - 40 miles" it means it is 40 miles to the city hall of that city sign


*The name of Canada is believed to come from the Iroquois Indian word "Kanata", meaning "village" or "community". The word Canada was first used in a 1534 text written by Jacques Cartier describing the Indian village of Stadacona.


*The longest non-medical word in the English language is floccipausinihilipilification (29 letters), which means "the act of estimating as worthless."


*Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.


*Bees visit over 2,000 flowers and fly over 55,000 miles to produce just 1lb. of honey


*Four out of every ten people who come to a party in your home will look in your bathroom cabinet


*The taboo against whistling backstage comes from the pre-electricity era when a whistle was the signal for the curtains and the scenery to drop. An unexpected whistle could cause an unexpected scene change!


*The sound you hear when macho people crack their knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.


*Francis Bacon died of hypothermia while trying to freeze a chicken by stuffing it with snow


*Captain Jean-Luc Picard's (Star Trek) fish was named Livingston


*The WD in WD40 means "water displacement." The 40 in WD40 comes from the 40 attempts at creating this product.


*Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.


*Mice, whales, elephants, giraffes and man all have seven neck vertebra.


* The name for Oz in the "Wizard of Oz" was thought up when the creator,


Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence "Oz."


*American car horns beep in the tone of F.


*The only food cockroaches won't eat are cucumbers.


*China has more English speakers than the U.S.


*Hong Kong has the world's largest double-decker tram fleet in the world


*The words silent and listen have the same letters. Santa and Satan do too


*You can tell the sex of a turtle by the sound it makes, A male grunts, A female hisses.


*There are no public toilets in Peru.


*Samuel Clemens [aka Mark Twain] was born in 1835 when Haley's Comet came into view. When he died in 1910, Haley's Comet came into view again


*The pound sign is called a 'octothorp.'


*In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, "They'll put a man on


the moon before I hit a home run." On July 20, 1969, a few hours after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, Gaylord Perry hit his first, and only, home run


*"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language to end in "mt."


*The Queen termite can live up to 50 years and have 30,000 children every day


*The term, "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye" is from Ancient Rome. The only rule during wrestling matches was, "No eye gouging," eveything else was allowed.


*A Dalmatian is the only dog that can get gout


*The male gypsy moth can smell the virgin female up to 1.8 miles away


*A male emperor moth can smell a female emperor moth up to 7 miles away


*The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet out of the body.


*A puff of smoke, such as when someone is smoking a cigarette or a pipe


is called " a lunt "


*The name "Pinocchio" is from Tuscany, Italy and means "pine nut" or "kernel".


*Gilligan of Gilligan's Island had a first name that was only used once, on the never-aired pilot show. His first name was Willy


*It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her. It was originally the right, but the translator messed up again.


*Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600's by a translator.


*Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour %26amp; if you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee


*For 47 days in 1961, the painting "Matisse's Le Bateau (The Boat)" was hanging upside down in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. None of the over 116,000 visitors seem to have noticed.


*Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated.


*Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while he was host of "Lorne Greene's Animal Kingdom."


*The magic word 'Abracadabra' was originally intended for the specific purpose of curing hay fever.


*The phrase "rule of thumb" was popularized by an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb top to first joint. (a thumb measurement is an inch)


*More redheads are born in Scotland UK than in any other part of the world


*The Sanskrit word for 'war' means - "desire for more cows".


*The average bed is home to over 5 billion dust mites.


*Only female wasps, bees, and mosquitoes sting.


*Las Vegas means "The Meadows" in Spanish.


*Born on November 2, 1718, British politician, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, is credited with naming the 'sandwich.' He developed a habit of eating beef between slice of toast so he could continue to play cards uninterrupted.


*Ice hockey was first played in 1885 by British soldiers stationed in Canada


*Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.


*Your fingernails grow 4 times faster than your toe nails


*Pain travels faster than 3000 feet per second


*A cow produces 200 times more gas a day than a person


*About 10,000,000 people have the same birthday as you


*The snail mates only once in it's entire life, also a snail has 4 noses


*The Coca-Cola company is the biggest consumer of sugar in the world


*The dot that appears over the letter "i" is called a tittle.


*All major league baseball umpires must wear black underwear while on the job (in case their pants split)


*Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott"


*The word gymnasium comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means to


exercise naked


*Everyone thought Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia, because he couldn't speak properly until he was 9 years old.


*Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots


*The nation of Monaco on the French Riviera, is smaller than Central Park in New York. Monaco is 370 acres and Central Park is 840 acres


*Gweneth Paltrow's nickname for Steven Speilberg is "Uncle Morty." Steven Speilberg calls Gweneth Paltrow "Gwynnie the pooh."


*You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.


*The sorcerer's name in Disney's Fantasia is Yensid, which happens to be Disney backwards.


*Armadillos are the only animal besides humans that can get leprosy


*The world's longest name is: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Sr.


*Shirly Temple received 135,000 presents on her 8th birthday.


* When Christopher Columbus and crew landed in the New World they observed the natives using a nose pipe to smoke a strange new herb. The pipe was called a "tabaka" by the locals, hence our word tobacco.


*Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.


*The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.


*Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.


*Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.


*In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.


*Queen Victoria [UK 1837-1901] eased the discomfort of her monthly cramps by having her doctor supply her with marijuana.


*The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. [usually in our sleep] ~ this is a MYTH


*If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough energy is produced to create an atomic bomb


*Sugar was first added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist (William Semple). One way to assure business!!


*The Ramses brand condom is named after the great phaoroh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.


*The names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru: See no evil, Mikazaru: Hear no evil, and Mazaru: Speak no evil.


*The Spanish word esposa means "wife." The plural, esposas, means "wives," but also "handcuffs."


*23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.


* There was one U.S. state that no longer exists? In 1784 the U.S. had a state called Franklin, named after Benjamin Franklin. But four years later, it was incorporated into Tennessee.


*The clinical term for a hairy buttocks is "daysypgal."


*A duck's quack doesn't echo, and ... no one knows why.~ MYTH everything echoes. University students have recorded a ducks echo. It is usually so quiet we cannot hear it.


*"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language. ??? Maybe if said fast.


*Clans many many years ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, burnt their houses down - hence the expression " to get fired." !!

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sharks can sense the heartbeat of other fish





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the ant is proportionally the strongest animal





cockroaches chew on your eyebrows and lashes
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Is anti-Americanism a new phenomenon. Or did the WOT just bring out the haters that were always there?

I have read much on the issue and I am convinced that the people who hate America today also hated America 20 years ago. Obviously younger generations will learn their hatred of America from their parents, teachers and the spiteful media.











- I posted an interesting article on the subject below.





The Falseness of Anti-Americanism





Pollsters report rising anti-Americanism worldwide. The United States, they imply, squandered global sympathy after the September 11 terrorist attacks through its arrogant unilateralism. In truth, there was never any sympathy to squander. Anti-Americanism was already entrenched in the world's psyche—a backlash against a nation that comes bearing modernism to those who want it but who also fear and despise it.





By Fouad Ajami





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“America is everywhere," Italian novelist Ignazio Silone once observed. It is in Karachi and Paris, in Jakarta and Brussels. An idea of it, a fantasy of it, hovers over distant lands. And everywhere there is also an obligatory anti-Americanism, a cover and an apology for the spell the United States casts over distant peoples and places. In the burning grounds of the Muslim world and on its periphery, U.S. embassies and their fate in recent years bear witness to a duality of the United States as Satan and redeemer. The embassies targeted by the masters of terror and by the diehards are besieged by visa-seekers dreaming of the golden, seductive country. If only the crowd in Tehran offering its tired rhythmic chant "marg bar amrika" ("death to America") really meant it! It is of visas and green cards and houses with lawns and of the glamorous world of Los Angeles, far away from the mullahs and their cultural tyranny, that the crowd really dreams. The frenzy with which radical Islamists battle against deportation orders from U.S. soil— dreading the prospect of returning to Amman and Beirut and Cairo— reveals the lie of anti-Americanism that blows through Muslim lands.





The world rails against the United States, yet embraces its protection, its gossip, and its hipness. Tune into a talk show on the stridently anti-American satellite channel Al-Jazeera, and you'll behold a parody of American ways and techniques unfolding on the television screen. That reporter in the flak jacket, irreverent and cool against the Kabul or Baghdad background, borrows a form perfected in the country whose sins and follies that reporter has come to chronicle.








In Doha, Qatar, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, arguably Sunni Islam's most influential cleric, at Omar ibn al-Khattab Mosque, a short distance away from the headquarters of the U.S. Central Command, delivers a khutba, a Friday sermon. The date is June 13, 2003. The cleric's big theme of the day is the arrogance of the United States and the cruelty of the war it unleashed on Iraq. This cleric, Egyptian born, political to his fingertips, and in full mastery of his craft and of the sensibility of his followers, is particularly agitated in his sermon. Surgery and a period of recovery have kept him away from his pulpit for three months, during which time there has been a big war in the Arab world that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq with stunning speed and effectiveness. The United States was "acting like a god on earth," al-Qaradawi told the faithful. In Iraq, the United States had appointed itself judge and jury. The invading power may have used the language of liberation and enlightenment, but this invasion of Iraq was a 21st-century version of what had befallen Baghdad in the middle years of the 13th century, in 1258 to be exact, when Baghdad, the city of learning and culture, was sacked by the Mongols.





The preacher had his themes, but a great deal of the United States had gone into the preacher's art: Consider his Web site, Qaradawi.net, where the faithful can click and read his fatwas (religious edicts)— the Arabic interwoven with html text— about all matters of modern life, from living in non-Islamic lands to the permissibility of buying houses on mortgage to the follies of Arab rulers who have surrendered to U.S. power. Or what about his way with television? He is a star of the medium, and Al-Jazeera carried an immensely popular program of his. That art form owes a debt, no doubt, to the American "televangelists," as nothing in the sheik's traditional education at Al Azhar University in Cairo prepared him for this wired, portable religion. And then there are the preacher's children: One of his daughters had made her way to the University of Texas where she received a master's degree in biology, a son had earned a Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and yet another son had embarked on that quintessential American degree, an MBA at the American University in Cairo. Al-Qaradawi embodies anti-Americanism as the flip side of Americanization.





A NEW ORTHODOXY


Of late, pollsters have come bearing news and numbers of anti-Americanism the world over. The reports are one dimensional and filled with panic. This past June, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press published a survey of public opinion in 20 countries and the Palestinian territories that indicated a growing animus toward the United States. In the same month, the BBC came forth with a similar survey that included 10 countries and the United States. On the surface of it, anti-Americanism is a river overflowing its banks. In Indonesia, the United States is deemed more dangerous than al Qaeda. In Jordan, Russia, South Korea, and Brazil, the United States is thought to be more dangerous than Iran, the "rogue state" of the mullahs.





There is no need to go so far away from home only to count the cats in Zanzibar. These responses to the United States are neither surprising nor profound. The pollsters, and those who have been brandishing their findings, see in these results some verdict on the United States itself— and on the performance abroad of the Bush presidency— but the findings could be read as a crude, admittedly limited, measure of the foul temper in some unsettled places. The pollsters have flaunted spreadsheets to legitimize a popular legend: It is not Americans that people abroad hate, but the United States! Yet it was Americans who fell to terrorism on September 11, 2001, and it is of Americans and their deeds, and the kind of social and political order they maintain, that sordid tales are told in Karachi and Athens and Cairo and Paris. You can't profess kindness toward Americans while attributing the darkest of motives to their homeland.





The Pew pollsters ignored Greece, where hatred of the United States is now a defining feature of political life. The United States offended Greece by rescuing Bosnians and Kosovars. Then, the same Greeks who hailed the Serbian conquest of Srebrenica in 1995 and the mass slaughter of the Muslims there were quick to summon up outrage over the U.S. military campaign in Iraq. In one Greek public opinion survey, Americans were ranked among Albanians, Gypsies, and Turks as the most despised peoples.





Takis Michas, a courageous Greek writer with an eye for his country's temperament, traces this new anti-Americanism to the Orthodox Church itself. A narrative of virtuous and embattled solitude and alienation from Western Christendom has always been integral to the Greek psyche; a fusion of church and nation is natural to the Greek worldview. In the 1990s, the Yugoslav wars gave this sentiment a free run. The church sanctioned and fed the belief that the United States was Satan, bent on destroying the "True Faith," Michas explains, and shoring up Turkey and the Muslims in the Balkans. A neo-Orthodox ideology took hold, slicing through faith and simplifying history. Where the Balkan churches— be they the Bulgars or the Serbs— had been formed in rebellion against the hegemony of the Greek priesthood, the new history made a fetish of the fidelity of Greece to its Orthodox "brethren." Greek paramilitary units fought alongside Bosnian Serbs as part of the Drina Corps under the command of indicted war criminal Gen. Ratko Mladic. The Greek flag was hoisted over the ruins of Srebenica's Orthodox church when the doomed city fell. Serbian war crimes elicited no sense of outrage in Greece; quite to the contrary, sympathy for Serbia and the identification with its war aims and methods were limitless.





Beyond the Yugoslav wars, the neo-Orthodox worldview sanctified the ethnonationalism of Greece, spinning a narrative of Hellenic persecution at the hands of the United States as the standard-bearer of the West. Greece is part of NATO and of the European Union (EU), but an old schism— that of Eastern Orthodoxy's claim against the Latin world— has greater power and a deeper resonance. In the banal narrative of Greek anti-Americanism, this animosity emerges from U.S. support for the junta that reigned over the country from 1967 to 1974. This deeper fury enables the aggrieved to glide over the role the United States played in the defense and rehabilitation of Greece after World War II. Furthermore, it enables them to overlook the lifeline that migration offered to untold numbers of Greeks who are among the United States' most prosperous communities.





Greece loves the idea of its "Westernness"— a place and a culture where the West ends, and some other alien world (Islam) begins. But the political culture of religious nationalism has isolated Greece from the wider currents of Western liberalism. What little modern veneer is used to dress up Greece's anti-Americanism is a pretense. The malady here is, paradoxically, a Greek variant of what plays out in the world of Islam: a belligerent political culture sharpening faith as a political weapon, an abdication of political responsibility for one's own world, and a search for foreign "devils."





Lest they be trumped by their hated Greek rivals, the Turks now give voice to the same anti-Americanism. It is a peculiar sentiment among the Turks, given their pragmatism. They are not prone to the cluster of grievances that empower anti-Americanism in France or among the intelligentsia of the developing world. In the 1920s, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk gave Turkey a dream of modernity and self-help by pointing his country westward, distancing it from the Arab-Muslim lands to its south and east. But the secular, modernist dream in Turkey has fractured, and oddly, anti-Americanism blows through the cracks from the Arab lands and from Brussels and Berlin.





The fury of the Turkish protests against the United States in the months prior to the war in Iraq exhibited a pathology all its own. It was, at times, nature imitating art: The protesters in the streets burned American flags in the apparent hope that Europeans (real Europeans, that is) would finally take Turkey and the Turks into the fold. The U.S. presence had been benign in Turkish lands, and Americans had been Turkey's staunchest advocates for coveted membership in the EU. But suddenly this relationship that served Turkey so well was no longer good enough. As the "soft" Islamists (there is no such thing, we ought to understand by now) revolted against Pax Americana, the secularists averted their gaze and let stand this new anti-Americanism. The pollsters calling on the Turks found a people in distress, their economy on the ropes, and their polity in an unfamiliar world beyond the simple certainties of Kemalism, yet without new political tools and compass. No dosage of anti-Americanism, the Turks will soon realize, will take Turkey past the gatekeepers of Europe.





WE WERE ALL AMERICANS


The introduction of the Pew report sets the tone for the entire study. The war in Iraq, it argues,"has widened the rift between Americans and Western Europeans" and "further inflamed the Muslim world." The implications are clear: The United States was better off before Bush's "unilateralism." The United States, in its hubris, summoned up this anti-Americanism. Those are the political usages of this new survey.





But these sentiments have long prevailed in Jordan, Egypt, and France. During the 1990s, no one said good things about the United States in Egypt. It was then that the Islamist children of Egypt took to the road, to Hamburg and Kandahar, to hatch a horrific conspiracy against the United States. And it was in the 1990s, during the fabled stock market run, when the prophets of globalization preached the triumph of the U.S. economic model over the protected versions of the market in places such as France, when anti-Americanism became the uncontested ideology of French public life. Americans were barbarous, a threat to French cuisine and their beloved language. U.S. pension funds were acquiring their assets and Wall Street speculators were raiding their savings. The United States incarcerated far too many people and executed too many criminals. All these views thrived during a decade when Americans are now told they were loved and uncontested on foreign shores.





Much has been made of the sympathy that the French expressed for the United States immediately after the September 11 attacks, as embodied by the famous editorial of Le Monde's publisher Jean-Marie Colombani, "Nous Sommes Tous Américains" ("We are all Americans"). And much has been made of the speed with which the United States presumably squandered that sympathy in the months that followed. But even Colombani's column, written on so searing a day, was not the unalloyed message of sympathy suggested by the title. Even on that very day, Colombani wrote of the United States reaping the whirlwind of its "cynicism"; he recycled the hackneyed charge that Osama bin Laden had been created and nurtured by U.S. intelligence agencies.





Colombani quickly retracted what little sympathy he had expressed when, in December of 2001, he was back with an open letter to "our American friends" and soon thereafter with a short book, Tous Américains? le monde après le 11 septembre 2001 (All Americans? The World After September 11, 2001). By now the sympathy had drained, and the tone was one of belligerent judgment and disapproval. There was nothing to admire in Colombani's United States, which had run roughshod in the world and had been indifferent to the rule of law. Colombani described the U.S. republic as a fundamentalist Christian enterprise, its magistrates too deeply attached to the death penalty, its police cruel to its black population. A republic of this sort could not in good conscience undertake a campaign against Islamism. One can't, Colombani writes, battle the Taliban while trying to introduce prayers in one's own schools; one can't strive to reform Saudi Arabia while refusing to teach Darwinism in the schools of the Bible Belt; and one can't denounce the demands of the sharia (Islamic law) while refusing to outlaw the death penalty. Doubtless, he adds, the United States can't do battle with the Taliban before doing battle against the bigotry that ravages the depths of the United States itself. The United States had not squandered Colombani's sympathy; he never had that sympathy in the first place.





Colombani was hardly alone in the French intellectual class in his enmity toward the United States. On November 3, 2001, in Le Monde, the writer and pundit Jean Baudrillard permitted himself a thought of stunning cynicism. He saw the perpetrators of September 11 acting out his own dreams and the dreams of others like him. He gave those attacks a sort of universal warrant: "How we have dreamt of this event," he wrote, "how all the world without exception dreamt of this event, for no one can avoid dreaming of the destruction of a power that has become hegemonic . . . . It is they who acted, but we who wanted the deed." Casting caution and false sympathy aside, Baudrillard saw the terrible attacks on the United States as an "object of desire." The terrorists had been able to draw on a "deep complicity," knowing perfectly well that they were acting out the hidden yearnings of others oppressed by the United States' order and power. To him, morality of the U.S. variety is a sham, and the terrorism directed against it is a legitimate response to the inequities of "globalization."





In his country's intellectual landscape, Baudrillard was no loner. A struggle had raged throughout the 1990s, pitting U.S.-led globalization (with its low government expenditures, a "cheap" and merciless Wall Street-Treasury Department axis keen on greater discipline in the market, and relatively long working hours on the part of labor) against France's protectionist political economy. The primacy the United States assigned to liberty waged a pitched battle against the French commitment to equity.





To maintain France's sympathy, and that of Le Monde, the United States would have had to turn the other cheek to the murderers of al Qaeda, spare the Taliban, and engage the Muslim world in some high civilizational dialogue. But who needs high approval ratings in Marseille? Envy of U.S. power, and of the United States' universalism, is the ruling passion of French intellectual life. It is not "mostly Bush" that turned France against the United States. The former Socialist foreign minister, Hubert Védrine, was given to the same anti-Americanism that moves his successor, the bombastic and vain Dominique de Villepin. It was Védrine, it should be recalled, who in the late 1990s had dubbed the United States a "hyperpower." He had done so before the war on terrorism, before the war on Iraq. He had done it against the background of an international order more concerned with economics and markets than with military power. In contrast to his successor, Védrine at least had the honesty to acknowledge that there was nothing unusual about the way the United States wielded its power abroad, or about France's response to that primacy. France, too, he observed, might have been equally overbearing if it possessed the United States' weight and assets.





His successor gave France's resentment highly moral claims. Villepin appeared evasive, at one point, on whether he wished to see a U.S. or an Iraqi victory in the standoff between Saddam Hussein's regime and the United States. Anti-Americanism indulges France's fantasy of past greatness and splendor and gives France's unwanted Muslim children a claim on the political life of a country that knows not what to do with them.





THE BURDEN OF MODERNITY


To come bearing modernism to those who want it but who rail against it at the same time, to represent and embody so much of what the world yearns for and fears— that is the American burden. The United States lends itself to contradictory interpretations. To the Europeans, and to the French in particular, who are enamored of their laïcisme (secularism), the United States is unduly religious, almost embarrassingly so, its culture suffused with sacred symbolism. In the Islamic world, the burden is precisely the opposite: There, the United States scandalizes the devout, its message represents nothing short of an affront to the pious and a temptation to the gullible and the impressionable young. According to the June BBC survey, 78 percent of French polled identified the United States as a "religious" country, while only 10 percent of Jordanians endowed it with that label. Religious to the secularists, faithless to the devout— such is the way the United States is seen in foreign lands.





So many populations have the United States under their skin. Their rage is oddly derived from that very same attraction. Consider the Saudi realm, a place where anti-Americanism is fierce. The United States helped invent the modern Saudi world. The Arabian American Oil Company— for all practical purposes a state within a state— pulled the desert enclave out of its insularity, gave it skills, and ushered it into the 20th century. Deep inside the anti-Americanism of today's Saudi Arabia, an observer can easily discern the dependence of the Saudi elite on their U.S. connection. It is in the image of the United States' suburbs and urban sprawl that Saudi cities are designed. It is on the campuses of Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford that the ruling elite are formed and educated.





After September 11, 2001, the Saudi elite panicked that their ties to the United States might be shattered and that their world would be consigned to what they have at home. Fragments of the United States have been eagerly embraced by an influential segment of Saudi society. For many, the United States was what they encountered when they were free from home and family and age-old prohibitions. Today, an outing in Riyadh is less a journey to the desert than to the mall and to Starbucks.


An academic in Riyadh, in the midst of an anti-American tirade about all policies American, was keen to let me know that his young son, born in the United States, had suddenly declared he no longer wanted to patronize McDonald's because of the United States' support of Israel. The message was plaintive and unpersuasive; the resolve behind that "boycott" was sure to crack. A culture that casts so long a shadow is fated to be emulated and resented at the same time. The United States is destined to be in the politics— and imagination— of strangers even when the country (accurately) believes it is not implicated in the affairs of other lands.





In a hauntingly astute set of remarks made to the New Yorker in the days that followed the terrorism of September 11, the Egyptian playwright Ali Salem— a free spirit at odds with the intellectual class in his country and a maverick who journeyed to Israel and wrote of his time there and of his acceptance of that country— went to the heart of the anti-American phenomenon. He was thinking of his own country's reaction to the United States, no doubt, but what he says clearly goes beyond Egypt:





People say that Americans are arrogant, but it's not true. Americans enjoy life and they are proud of their lives, and they are boastful of their wonderful inventions that have made life so much easier and more convenient. It's very difficult to understand the machinery of hatred, because you wind up resorting to logic, but trying to understand this with logic is like measuring distance in kilograms….These are people who are envious. To them, life is an unbearable burden. Modernism is the only way out. But modernism is frightening. It means we have to compete. It means we can't explain everything away with conspiracy theories. Bernard Shaw said it best, you know. In the preface to 'St. Joan,' he said Joan of Arc was burned not for any reason except that she was talented. Talent gives rise to jealousy in the hearts of the untalented.





This kind of envy cannot be attenuated. Jordanians, for instance, cannot be talked out of their anti-Americanism. In the BBC survey, 71 percent of Jordanians thought the United States was more dangerous to the world than al Qaeda. But Jordan has been the rare political and economic recipient of a U.S. free trade agreement, a privilege the United States shares only with a handful of nations. A new monarch, King Abdullah II, came to power, and the free trade agreement was an investment that Pax Americana made in his reign and in the moderation of his regime. But this bargain with the Hashemite dynasty has not swayed the intellectual class, nor has it made headway among the Jordanian masses. On Iraq and on matters Palestinian, for more than a generation now, Jordanians have not had a kind thing to say about the United States. In the scheme of Jordan's neighborhood, the realm is benign and forgiving, but the political life is restrictive and tight. When talking about the United States, Jordanians have often been talking to their rulers, expressing their dissatisfaction with the quality of the country's public life and economic performance. A pollster venturing to Jordan must understand the country's temper, hemmed in by poverty and overshadowed by more resourceful powers all around it: Iraq to the east, Israel to the west, and Syria and Saudi Arabia over the horizon. A sense of disinheritance has always hung over Jordan. The trinity of God, country, and king puts much of the political life of the land beyond scrutiny and discussion. The anti-Americanism emanates from, and merges with, this political condition.








With modernism come the Jews. They have been its bearers and beneficiaries, and they have paid dearly for it. They have been taxed with cosmopolitanism: The historian Isaac Deutscher had it right when he said that other people have roots, but the Jews have legs. Today the Jews have a singular role in U.S. public life and culture, and anti-Americanism is tethered to anti-Semitism. In the Islamic world, and in some European circles as well, U.S. power is seen as the handmaiden of Jewish influence. Witness, for instance, the London-based Arab media's obsession with the presumed ascendancy of the neoconservatives— such as former chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz— in the making of U.S. foreign policy. The neocons had been there for the rescue of the (Muslim) Bosnians and Kosovars, but the reactionaries in Muslim lands had not taken notice of that. Left to itself, the United States would be fair-minded, this Arab commentary maintains, and it would arrive at a balanced approach to the Arab-Islamic world. This narrative is nothing less than a modernized version of the worldview of that infamous forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. But it is put forth by men and women who insist on their oneness with the modern world.





A century ago, in a short-story called "Youth," the great British author Joseph Conrad captured in his incomparable way the disturbance that is heard when a modern world pushes against older cultures and disturbs their peace. In the telling, Marlowe, Conrad's literary double and voice, speaks of the frenzy of coming upon and disturbing the East. "And then, before I could open my lips, the East spoke to me, but it was in a Western voice. A torrent of words was poured into the enigmatical, the fateful silence; outlandish, angry words mixed with words and even whole sentences of good English, less strange but even more surprising. The voice swore and cursed violently; it riddled the solemn peace of the bay by a volley of abuse. It began by calling me Pig . . . ."





Today, the United States carries the disturbance of the modern to older places— to the east and to the intermediate zones in Europe. There is energy in the United States, and there is force. And there is resistance and resentment— and emulation— in older places affixed on the delicate balancing act of a younger United States not yet content to make its peace with traditional pains and limitations and tyrannies. That sensitive French interpreter of his country, Dominique Moïsi, recently told of a simple countryman of his who was wistful when Saddam Hussein's statue fell on April 9 in Baghdad's Firdos Square. France opposed this war, but this Frenchman expressed a sense of diminishment that his country had sat out this stirring story of political liberation. A society like France with a revolutionary history should have had a hand in toppling the tyranny in Baghdad, but it didn't. Instead, a cable attached to a U.S. tank had pulled down the statue, to the delirium of the crowd. The new history being made was a distinctly American (and British) creation. It was soldiers from Burlington, Vermont, and Linden, New Jersey, and Bon Aqua, Tennessee— I single out those towns because they are the hometowns of three soldiers who were killed in the Iraq war— who raced through the desert making this new history and paying for it.





The United States need not worry about hearts and minds in foreign lands. If Germans wish to use anti-Americanism to absolve themselves and their parents of the great crimes of World War II, they will do it regardless of what the United States says and does. If Muslims truly believe that their long winter of decline is the fault of the United States, no campaign of public diplomacy shall deliver them from that incoherence. In the age of Pax Americana, it is written, fated, or maktoob (as the Arabs would say) that the plotters and preachers shall rail against the United States— in whole sentences of good American slang.











Fouad Ajami is the Majid Khadduri professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a contributing editor at U.S. News %26amp; World Report.

Is anti-Americanism a new phenomenon. Or did the WOT just bring out the haters that were always there?
Of coarse the haters have always been there. We can't even get a consensus from our closest ally, the British. I suppose we will just need to live with it.





It became a national disgrace when the Clintons took office. These two people are not healers by any stretch of the imagination. These are, not one, but two lightning rods that galvanize the American public. If anybody can drive a stake into the American phyche quicker, it would be Hillary's alter ego, Rahm Emanuel., and she hangs on his every word.
Reply:every time you yanks elect a republics, the world shudders. understand that we don't hate you, we just think that (according to the results of the last election) 51% of you are insane. Report Abuse

Reply:every time you yanks elect a republican, the world shudders. understand that we don't hate you, we just think that (according to the results of the last election) 51% of you are insane. Report Abuse

Reply:Anti Americanism is not related to whole wide continental of America but for USA herself.





The hatred phenomenon is arising before the 9/11, before the Cold War ( Soviet vs Nato ).





Dont forget, USA and Israel are most wicked countries in the world. Dont trust and even made them as a friend. They will conquer your country at any time.





Bush and white house is the real terrorist and used many words to allure the stupid guy like you to support him against any terrosrism. But the question is what happened in Iraq and Afghan, many reported series said that many local civiliians are more been killed by USA soldiers just to make the people of USA like you say, hey, we have killed all terrorist and we must celebrate our victory. This is a barbaric actions done by the country that proudly said is more democratic and human right freedoms.


I dont think USA will be better after this, more numbers of foe that you made now, and this numbers will be increasing if no such actions to revamp the white house administration and Bush must be sentence to death penalty in Iraq for killing hundread thousand of people in Iraq and Afghan.
Reply:So you basic your opinions on a article written by Fouad Ajami? Having read it. It just base on one Journalist political view.
Reply:Sorry, but you must take a bit of responsibility for the way Americans act. There are reasons to not like us; although terrorism has no excuse.
Reply:The more we ram Christianity and Westernism down people's throats under the guise of freedom, the more enemies we will amass.
Reply:The "haters" have always been there. If you look closely at the pictures of any of the early anti-American rallies in Europe or elsewhere, you'll always see the posters say something like "sponsored by the Turkish Communist Party" or something like that. It's quite funny, actually.





The difference now is that, instead of it being a small rally of communists and fellow travelers, an increasing number of normal people seem to be joining in. And typical people have a low opinion of our government these days. Do you think it's simply because of the war on terror? I don't really believe that. I think the mis-handling on the war on al-Queda and the twisting of it into an amorphous "war on terror" is probably part of the reason. Because, of course, terror can never be 'defeated', so we've given ourselves a license to war forever.





We sometimes have to move without the consent of the world, but there's no reason to do so unless it is critically important. Iraq was not, and has proven to be a quagmire. I hate to say it, as a Republican, but this administration has been a grave disapointment, and not just on domestic policy. Wars should be fought with specific intent and clear purpose. Iraq has been a case of unclear intent and shifting purposes. Regardless of any other criticisms, this in itself is enough to make it a terrible thing.





Call me when you defeat "terror". I prefer to fight real enemies, not phantoms. And I prefer to fight only when we have to.
Reply:Liberals have wanted to give up on American values long ago. They were sooo opposed to going against the Soviet Union because who are we to tell anyone else how to live. Why should our values be any better than others. Morons. Thank God for Reagan and intelligent Republicans (not our current ones who are idiots along with the Dems).
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Reply:chavez es menos anti-americano que la gente que conozco en mexico. con eso se responde todo
Reply:In europe : not really hate, probably, but europeans have always looked down on americans, seeing them as not too informed about the world.


In middle east : always there since the end of WWII bc, of Israel.