Politics & Government - 31 August 2006

Good or Bad???

What are your views on the extremely unpopular president?

2006-08-31 03:02:57 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

why do you want these terrorists to have all these special rights? were at war with them. what about the rights of the people they are trying to kill. i think there are a few liberals that died in 9/11 that i would bet money, would have a different out look on the war and the president if they survived. you liberals don't care about the terrorists, you just hate bush. you don't even care about your fellow American, if you did you would want these terrorists dead.

2006-08-31 03:01:25 · 13 answers · asked by onefatwhiteguy 2 in Politics

Will the Republican governor sign the bill?
Will the bill, which won't take effect until a number of other states adopt direct election, start a flood of popular vote moves in other states?
Besides the constitutional aspects of the electoral college, how does indirect election benefit a democracy?

2006-08-31 03:01:18 · 3 answers · asked by murphy 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-31 03:01:02 · 9 answers · asked by dstr 6 in Politics

2006-08-31 03:00:33 · 15 answers · asked by Chetan G 1 in Government

I'm 16 and study in financial college in Moscow.
How can I get in USA after I will complete college, what problems can be?

And 2. I have friend in America, if he will invite, whether will allow to go to me in Embassy to him alone now?
I heard if there will be problems, if they will not, I would't to get in USA a several years? is it true?

2006-08-31 02:54:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

if suppose the high court gives capital punishment for a convict, the supreme court may change the judgement and give life imprisionment for the same case. why does this happen

2006-08-31 02:54:24 · 9 answers · asked by lakshmi n 1 in Law & Ethics

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/30/neighbor.stabbing.ap/index.html

2006-08-31 02:51:11 · 10 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Law & Ethics

2006-08-31 02:50:49 · 29 answers · asked by truthyness 7 in Government

2006-08-31 02:50:19 · 19 answers · asked by A True Gentleman 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-08-31 02:49:40 · 14 answers · asked by gibby 1 in Law & Ethics

Could a great mind in history be right? Will war lead to peace? Has WWII allowed us to live in peace without Hitler's control?
Can we as individuals decide which wars lead to peace & which wars are fought for unjust reasons? He made me think today - what about you?

2006-08-31 02:49:20 · 6 answers · asked by Wolfpacker 6 in Military

I think the english (myself included) hate being told what to do and tend to try and carry on regardless. Will this happen with smoking? What do you think?

2006-08-31 02:49:16 · 22 answers · asked by kerrykinsmalosevich 3 in Law & Ethics

Just watching a documentary on the Hollywood Ten. As I was watching their rights get trampled on I thought - heck, they were terrorists! The Hollywood Ten spent a year in prison. We have citizens being held here for years...and no charges filed yet.

How is our current policy on terrorism different or similar than it was then?

2006-08-31 02:48:36 · 3 answers · asked by Baby #3 due 10/13/09 6 in Politics

2006-08-31 02:48:26 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-08-31 02:47:09 · 3 answers · asked by dstr 6 in Politics

broke, and married mr wrong

2006-08-31 02:45:18 · 7 answers · asked by jen 1 in Law & Ethics

http://sagebrushpatriot.com/america.htm

what do you think
got any otheg good ones

2006-08-31 02:44:38 · 1 answers · asked by mobile auto repair (mr fix it) 7 in Politics

-we took over an unarmed country claiming they had WMD

-why act like our country is never wrong just ask the American Indians and African Americans

I hate our war, I hate our spending in Iraq, and I really hate someone who thinks they are patriotic over IRAQ.

2006-08-31 02:41:19 · 15 answers · asked by john p 3 in Politics

if u dont think americathen which country will take americas place?

2006-08-31 02:40:35 · 10 answers · asked by tom 1 in Government

Seeing as I have to plug an electric car into my house, and my house runs on energy from the local non-green powerplant, doesn't my car's need for electric actually cause an increase in demand on the powerplant's energy production- causing them to produce more power (and pollution)?

If we all switched to electric cars, wouldn't the burden of producing energy for them just switch from the individual owner to the local power plant- with an increase in pollution to follow?

2006-08-31 02:39:22 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-08-31 02:37:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I have just jpined the Navy and i read somewhere that the military pays off your school loans. Is this true?

2006-08-31 02:37:34 · 10 answers · asked by SwellSurfer17 1 in Military

- They protest windfarms because the turbines upset bird migration.
- They protest solar farms because the space the panels take up annexes the territory of desert animals and affects their mating.
- They protest hydro-electric because the dams affect fish mating habits.
- They protest oil/coal/fossil fuel because it pollutes.
- They protest nuclear energy because they think it is dangerous.

So what do they expect us to use?

2006-08-31 02:35:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

To Syria ,Iran,Afghanistan if he is involved in Terroristic attacked or connected with Arab World leaders. I think he really work's alone and he has nothing to do to hurts the american people.

2006-08-31 02:34:59 · 13 answers · asked by ? 1 in Civic Participation

Simple answer, the bible. Seriously, I had an interesting conversation with a friends mother. Of course it didn't go anywhere but I found out something interesting. She mentioned the 10 commandments and mentioned how she had broken all of them in the past, except for killing. I said if you voted for Bush you've killed thousands of people and she said "you can't say that". I asked why and she said that the bible and the good lord say's not to bash/question/make fun of those above you. I said why not, she said, that's what the bible says and I believe in it. Interesting, btw she was born and raised in South Carolina too, and votes Republican.

2006-08-31 02:34:25 · 17 answers · asked by Fiesty Redhead 2 in Politics

've seen Katie Couric swoon and giggle far too many times from her "Today" show perch. That was her charge, or at least it was byproduct of what she, hands down, can be commended for doing: being our morning sweetie and connecting with viewers in a way that stroked the egos of the execs at NBC. "Today," according to The Associated Press, hasn't lost a week in the ratings for more than 10 years. All bow now to Katie.

Couric's jauntiness comes across as authentic enough. And that's probably why so many people like her. She seems friendly and open and as she shared her own stories, especially the death of her husband to colorectal cancer, you had to appreciate her.

But the nightly news isn't banter from your girlfriend. It's serious, sometimes dour stuff. Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, even Walter Cronkite — we've become accustomed to their pace. That straight, baritone, I'm-not-screwing-around delivery. They were the men who escorted us to the grimmest of events: war, then back, then back to war.

Do we really want someone who chirps and skips?

I mean, does Katie Couric anchoring CBS' "Evening News" mean we'll have more featurettes on hunky country singers — "eye"-quotient stuff — between morsels of Iraq and immigration?

I, like a good many of you, fall into that coveted demographic for advertisers on network newscasts: viewers age 25 to 54 years old.

I'm not one to dismiss any person, regardless of sex, who seeks a challenge (Couric said as much in explaining why she'll leave "Today" next month, where she's been for 15 years, and jumping ship to CBS. Her NBC replacement: Meredith Vieira who co-hosts that gal couchfest, "The View" on ABC. She's also the host of the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" )

I also won't ignore the newsworthiness of this story. Couric, 49, is the first woman to be named sole anchor of a network evening newscast. And yes, when women have climbed to the top (in journalism, in athletics, in politics, in the arts), I've applauded and then, as women tend to do when judging other women, I scrutinized them and took it all so personally if they screwed up

2006-08-31 02:34:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Why do I despise all politicians, am I alone?
Comments for and against are welcome.

2006-08-31 02:32:27 · 7 answers · asked by johnno K 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-08-31 02:31:48 · 40 answers · asked by missieclass 4 in Law & Ethics

I watched the worse movie calledTalladega Nights and thought about this. It's an election year and this movie comes out.

It's about a nascar driver (nascar fans are mostly republican rednecks - don't mean to offend but that is just a fact) and guess who they have opposing him as a new driver? A gay man from France.

Adding it up:
French - one of the #1 things republicans hate
Gay - another main thing republicans hate
Nascar - one of the #1 things republicans love

It had stuff like his dad drinking a 40 in a paper bag. If you are redneck and from the south then you know that is normal.

I'll never watch another Will Ferrell movie.

2006-08-31 02:31:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics