Politics & Government - 27 July 2006

i understand the idea behind supply and demand. However, a few years ago gas was on average $1.50 a gallon. Now it's over $3.00 per gallon. I'ts funny how it starting going up when houses went up. I heard cnn news say it's mostly because war in iraq. However, the middle east only supplies the u.s with 8% of our oil. Also i don't understand how these people with those big suv's are driving around these days. Car payment, insurance , and gas wow!

2006-07-27 16:28:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Bush had a hard start with 9/11 right off the bat like that so early in his presidency.

CLinton Knew about bin landen and had 8 years of intell but he was more interested in monica. Clinton defiled the presidency with his scandals and his blatent dericliction of duty caused 9/11.

Bush has a hard a job and works hard and people bust his chops becuase he's not as slick shmoozer like slick willy the demo RAT
Perv.

2006-07-27 16:28:00 · 22 answers · asked by rache001 3 in Politics

2006-07-27 16:27:43 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9559707/detail.html

It's enough to make you go Democrat, almost.

2006-07-27 16:26:54 · 8 answers · asked by sparkletina 6 in Politics

The federal government is trying to decide whether The FBI, the CIA, or the Los Angeles Police Department is the most effective at apprehending criminals. The issue is to be decided with a test - a rabbit is put in a forest and each organization has to find it.

The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigation, they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads, they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit, and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!

2006-07-27 16:26:33 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Should the people of Katrina who Neglected there pets go to jail.?
If People left their child they would most defiantly go to jail.
Do you think the helpless animals had no choice in anything?

2006-07-27 16:26:29 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Everyone already knows what they think or will think. The love bush ( he's not my president so i will never call him such), They like the war, They think Israel is good. soon enough they will lose their power base so it doesn't really mater what they say..

2006-07-27 16:26:01 · 8 answers · asked by Mr. I don't care 1 in Other - Politics & Government

I haven’t been here that long but the consistent racism shown by the pros is rampant here and none of the pros call them racist. Most of the answers I see from pros automatically assume that all illegals are “Mexican” and that all anti-illegals are white. Where are their race cards when they do this? I have been called everything from the dreaded N word to a redneck by pro-criminals, but I am the racist.

2006-07-27 16:25:26 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

This ought to be fun. Guys, watch the spewing of propaganda. I really should not taunt the fascists idiots like this but they really know in their heart of hearts that they have no moral base and every other word that comes from their lips is a lie or just repeated democratic party rhetoric that hold no logic or is based on morality. Watch this!

2006-07-27 16:25:11 · 22 answers · asked by AmericanSwede 2 in Politics

i work at a school and i am trying to get my voice heard, but the school administrator wont let us know any information about the board meetings other than they exist and are by "invitaiton only" ijust want to kow if thats legal. the school is funded through tax dollars so i would think that it should fall under the brown act. i did alot of research and just got the names of the board members and when the board meeting is but there is no agenda or anything i need some help understanding if this is legal and if not how to approach it?

2006-07-27 16:24:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

America is in turmoil and if things keep going like it is now she is going to take a big hit this next election. I have an idea. It is a drastic one, one that will shock the whole world, if we pull it off. First thou let me tell you what I think will happen if things go on as they are now. The Supreme Court will continue to legislate against the Conservatives, especially the Christians. America will never be the same, no matter who wins. And 98% of us will be sick about what it becomes, especially the liberals.

Here is the idea. Vote for who ever you want except Democrats, especially at the local election. The fuel for the fire comes from the local Politicains and there support for the big wheels. Once we stop the downward slide and the Liberal Professors and the Big Cheese go on the unemployment line then we can establish a solid Conservative America.

The Republican Party is not the answer and never will be. But the Democrats fly the Anti Christ flag. They must go.

2006-07-27 16:24:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-07-27 16:23:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

1931

Dr. Cornelius Rhoads, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Investigations, infects human subjects with cancer cells. He later goes on to establish the U.S. Army Biological Warfare facilities in Maryland, Utah, and Panama, and is named to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. While there, he begins a series of radiation exposure experiments on American soldiers and civilian hospital patients.

1932

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study begins. 200 black men diagnosed with syphilis are never told of their illness, are denied treatment, and instead are used as human guinea pigs in order to follow the progression and symptoms of the disease. They all subsequently die from syphilis, their families never told that they could have been treated.

2006-07-27 16:23:16 · 9 answers · asked by Olivia 4 in Politics

small business saves money by hiring illegals and corporations are making record profit.

Who will fend for the small guy?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060728/ap_on_go_co/minimum_wage_4

2006-07-27 16:21:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-27 16:20:06 · 9 answers · asked by Love America 4 in Immigration

to weed out the idiots that give answers on here tell me why u give the answer you did

2006-07-27 16:18:59 · 52 answers · asked by john h 1 in Politics

go to this site and tell me what you think. you don't have to read it just scoll down to the picture of the dollar.

http://www.clydelewis.com/dis/gz666/gz666.htm

2006-07-27 16:18:35 · 16 answers · asked by shydreamer2012 4 in Government

2006-07-27 16:18:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-27 16:17:46 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I got a response from a question with the following quote



mark
4 hours ago



"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael

Source(s):

www.nowarforisrael.com
Is this a ligitimate quote? And if so was he drunk at the time ? I know I've made some arrogant I control the world statements after a dozen or so - but no one follows me around with a microphone (thank god)

2006-07-27 16:16:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-27 16:16:12 · 16 answers · asked by justinteim4 2 in Immigration

2006-07-27 16:15:32 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

No Clinton or Rice just Pancha she will do all the people good. I vote for her . Will you my friend ?

2006-07-27 16:14:55 · 11 answers · asked by Mind Movie 3 in Immigration

Limbaugh vs. Reality

Bogus Economics

LIMBAUGH: On California contractor C.C. Myers completing repairs 74 days early on the earthquake-damaged Santa Monica Freeway: "There was one key element that made this happen. One key thing: The governor of California declared the [freeway] a disaster area and by so doing eliminated the need for competitive bids.... Government got the hell out of the way." (TV show, 4/13/94) "They gave this guy [Myers] the job without having to go through the rigmarole...of giving 25 percent of the job to a minority-owned business and 25 percent to a woman." (TV show, 4/15/94)

REALITY: There was competitive bidding: Myers beat four other contractors for the job. Affirmative action rules applied: At least 40 percent of the subcontracts went to minority or women-owned firms. Far from getting out of the way, dozens of state employees were on the job 24 hours a day. Furthermore, the federal government picked up the tab for the whole job (L.A. Times, 5/1/94).

LIMBAUGH: "Banks take the risks in issuing student loans and they are entitled to the profits." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Summer/93)

REALITY: Banks take no risks in issuing student loans, which are federally insured.

LIMBAUGH: "Don't let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America [in the '80s] resulted in a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth." (Ought to Be, p. 70)

REALITY: CBO figures do nothing of the sort. Its numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980, the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more than 20 to one.

LIMBAUGH: Comparing the 1950s with the present: "And I might point out that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the former period." (Told You So, p. 84)

REALITY: Income inequality, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, fell from the 1940s to the late 1960s, and then began rising. Inequality surpassed the 1950 level in 1982 and rose steadily to all-time highs in 1992. (Census Bureau's "Money Income of Households, Families and Persons in the United States")

LIMBAUGH: "Oh, how they relished blaming Reagan administration policies, including the mythical reductions in HUD's budget for public housing, for creating all of the homeless! Budget cuts? There were no budget cuts! The budget figures show that actual construction of public housing increased during the Reagan years." (Ought to Be, p. 242-243)

REALITY: In 1980, 20,900 low-income public housing units were under construction; in 1988, 9,700, a decline of 54 percent ;Statistical Abstracts of the U.S).In terms of 1993 dollars, the HUD budget for the construction of new public housing was slashed from $6.3 billion in 1980 to $683 million in 1988. "We're getting out of the housing business. Period," a Reagan HUD official declared in 1985.

LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.

LIMBAUGH: "There's no such thing as an implied contract." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Every first year law student knows there is.

LIMBAUGH: "Ladies and gentlemen, we now know why there is this institutional opposition to low tax rates in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It's because [low tax rates] are biblical in nature and in root. When you can trace the lowering of tax rates on grain from 90 percent to 20 percent giving seven fat years during the days of Pharaoh in Egypt, why then you are tracing the roots of lower taxes and rising prosperity to religion.... You can trace individual prosperity, economic growth back to the Bible, the Old Testament. Isn't it amazing?" (Radio show, 6/28/93)

REALITY: Amazingly wrong. Genesis 41 is about the wisdom of instituting taxes, not cutting them. After Pharaoh had a dream that prophesied seven fat years to be followed by seven lean years, Joseph advised him to "appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years...and lay up corn under the hands of Pharaoh." In other words, a 20 percent tax on the grain harvest would put aside food for use during the famine. Pharaoh took Joseph's advice, and Egypt avoided hunger during the famine.

Weird Science

LIMBAUGH: "It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema [and other diseases]." (Radio show, 4/29/94)

REALITY: Nicotine's addictiveness has been reported in medical literature since the turn of the century. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's 1988 report on nicotine addiction left no doubts on the subject; "Today the scientific base linking smoking to a number of chronic diseases is overwhelming, with a total of 50,000 studies from dozens of countries," states Encyclopedia Britannica's 1987 "Medical and Health Annual."

LIMBAUGH: "We closed down a whole town--Times Beach, Mo.--over the threat of dioxin. We now know there was no reason to do that. Dioxin at those levels isn't harmful." (Ought to Be, p. 163)

REALITY: "The hypothesis that low exposures [to dioxin] are entirely safe for humans is distinctly less tenable now than before," editorialized the New England Journal of Medicine after publishing a study (1/24/91) on cancer mortality and dioxin. In 1993, after Limbaugh's book was written, a study of residents in Seveso, Italy had increased cancer rates after being exposed to dioxin, The EPA's director of environmental toxicology said this study removed one of the last remaining doubts about dioxin's deadly effects (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane -- or put your children on a plane -- if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks." (Ought to Be, p. 135)

REALITY: A one in five AIDS risk for condom users? Not true, according to Dr. Joseph Kelaghan, who evaluates contraceptives for the National Institutes of Health. "There is substantive evidence that condoms prevent transmission if used consistently and properly," he said. He pointed to a nearly two-year study of couples in which one partner was HIV-positive. Among the 123 couples who used condoms regularly, there wasn't a single new infection (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "Most Canadian physicians who are themselves in need of surgery, for example, scurry across the border to get it done right: the American way. They have found, through experience, that state medical care is too expensive, too slow and inefficient, and, most important, it doesn't provide adequate care for most people." (Told You So, p. 153)

REALITY: "Mr. Limbaugh's claim simply isn't true," says Dr. Hugh Scully, chair of the Canadian Medical Association's Council on Healing and Finance. "The vast majority of Canadians, including physicians, receive their care here in Canada. Those few Canadians who receive health care in the U.S. most often do because they have winter homes in the States--like Arizona and Florida--and have emergent health problems there." Medical care in Canada is hardly "too expensive"; it's provided free and covered by taxes.

2006-07-27 16:14:43 · 2 answers · asked by tough as hell 3 in Government

2006-07-27 16:13:19 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

We live in Casville and must go to pick up my nephew at Fort Benning GA. .He,s in the boot camp there.

2006-07-27 16:12:59 · 8 answers · asked by Susan M 1 in Military

2006-07-27 16:10:39 · 10 answers · asked by justinteim4 2 in Politics

I think he is doing an excellent job considering what he is up against.

2006-07-27 16:09:53 · 8 answers · asked by sally 3 in Embassies & Consulates

2006-07-27 16:09:52 · 18 answers · asked by SlapADog 4 in Law & Ethics

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode05/usc_sec_05_00003331----000-.html , http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode36/usc_sec_36_00000302----000-.html

2006-07-27 16:07:54 · 5 answers · asked by B R H 3 in Law Enforcement & Police