Politics & Government - 5 October 2006

2006-10-05 16:58:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I just saw a post about-- What's your opinion of the scene at Columbia University last night?

If you want read my answer
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkkfpEsPuMfXB2HgYdlITrPsy6IX?qid=20061005193454AAYtWzo

Why such rage? It is not winning my heart or many Americans. Am I missing something? If my answer was wrong in some way-I am listening. Or do you feel the media is part to blame (or too)?

All comments are welcome.

2006-10-05 16:56:28 · 18 answers · asked by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 in Immigration

why do u think u are the superior race?

2006-10-05 16:55:36 · 30 answers · asked by Crystal 2 in Immigration

Is taking responsibility the same as agreeing to be held accountable for what you admit knowing at the time it was going on, AND knew was wrong?

http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/

2006-10-05 16:55:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

bush states in an interview that the Iraqi Civil War will be "a comma" towards freedom. What about the troops? Are their lives just a comma and nothing else?

2006-10-05 16:55:04 · 11 answers · asked by linus_van_pelt68 4 in Politics

2006-10-05 16:55:03 · 9 answers · asked by P 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-10-05 16:53:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

are rerouting billions of dollars of our tax money to their own advatage. they get richer while the illegal aliens are barely surviving? where is your sense of justice, integrity and morality?

2006-10-05 16:53:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-10-05 16:52:51 · 1 answers · asked by Dr.O 5 in Politics

I have already contacted our cell phone provider and they can not help. They suggested filing a report; but to whom do I do that with -- the local police, the constables, the FBI -- there are so many agencies to deal with. I want to get in touch with the correct one. We believe the person calling is an estranged family member. Does this make it more difficult to stop?

2006-10-05 16:50:52 · 20 answers · asked by texasladyred2000 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

shameful..hastert will be gone very soon.

2006-10-05 16:49:14 · 8 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics

First immpressions are everything & what is the first thing these illegal invaders do. they illegally enter our country. Yet, if we say anything they call us racist. We are not racist, we are anti illegal immigration. If the illegals had more than a 2nd grade education they would be able to tell the difference between being RACIST or being ANTI ILLEGAL . Now there is something like 20-25 million illegals in this country, 70 percent from mexico. They are driving down wages for all Americans, bleeding the American tax payer to death, by making us pay for their health care, welfare, WIC, etc. Then top it off, they have a baby ( anchor baby ) here, because our laws say if your born here your legal..then the illegal parents don't have to leave. Once good paying jobs, are now low paying jobs.... Corporate America only cares about the money they make from the illegals. ..You see, any Red Blooded American that can read this..should be fighting made at the illegal immigrants. GO BACK HOME!

2006-10-05 16:48:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

thoughts? for business math class..

2006-10-05 16:46:47 · 8 answers · asked by NOooob! 1 in Government

Has the entire indian polity become filled with wimps like ghulam nabi azad and farooq abdullah? the congress is falling all over militants and appeasing them like never before.... the opposition seems impotent in its inertia...... not even a single voice or a single newspaper or tv news channel has openly asked for the death sentence to be carried out.....
when the shankaracharya was arrested by jayalalitha to settle personal scores, the secular media raped the pontiff left right and centre and claimed all are equal before law and law of the land is supreme.....
till date not a shred o evidence has been proved against the acharya in court.....
however in afsals case, it has been decided by supreme court that he is convicted murderer and terrorist who attacked the indian parliament and killed several security personnel in the process....
are therese hindu lives less important than that of this terrorist? why do we all shamelessly lick muslim bottoms?

2006-10-05 16:45:00 · 7 answers · asked by roughelement 2 in Law & Ethics

I know the usual thing people say is that he wanted King George to be able to read it, but the myth buster people say that's not true, and they're usually right about things... now I don't know what to think. Anybody know the truth?

2006-10-05 16:44:30 · 12 answers · asked by remanneercson 2 in Other - Politics & Government

and this is no mistake........this is deliberate and proof Faux news is worthless, and so are its viewers

the link clearly shows a screenshot from oreillys show......pathetic

http://www.democrats.com/node/10241

2006-10-05 16:44:20 · 10 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics

Do you agree with the current administration's policy of outsourcing jobs overseas?

If so, how do you feel it benefits the average, middle-income American family?

If not, please give rational reasons for your opinion as well.

2006-10-05 16:43:39 · 16 answers · asked by spire2000 2 in Politics

hey you guys these are some of the answers that are given to this question ;what are the effect if any does the political; structure have on families in our society? can some one develop all this information into an essay. here is the information or opinions that people had given.
I think there are many ways in which the political structure affects families. Some are beneficial and others are detrimental. Of the good kind, one sees persons settled in a society where law and order prevail, which gives a sense of security to those who abide by it. On the other hand, there is probably too much governmental interference in the way people choose to live. High taxation, antiquated laws, lack of sufficient health care, a stressed economy, unemployment rates, escalating crime, relaxed national security, and domestic violence are some of the by-products of the division of politics in this nation. Where one side will preach conservatism, the opposing faction will expound on liberalism.

2006-10-05 16:42:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I think we all agree on the fact that some of them cross the border illegally and give birth to children, right?

So if they have their baby in a hospital, who exactly pays the bill? While most of them are poor and looking for work, I find it very hard to believe they pay the bill in cash, out of their own pocket. We're talking thousands of dollars. Someone is footing the bill. Who is it?

Are they receiving government assistance?

2006-10-05 16:39:54 · 23 answers · asked by bekkiboo31 4 in Immigration

2006-10-05 16:37:06 · 16 answers · asked by texasladyred2000 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

I've served 8 years and and ETS'ed active army as an E-5. Now I have to report to some Nasty Girl Unit in 1 week about 20 miles from my home. Rumor is they are deploying in four months. I am so disillusioned with the war and everthing that I could puke.I thought I was done. Now this. Has anyone else with over 7 years been called back? I'm a 92Y.

2006-10-05 16:35:56 · 10 answers · asked by Goddess of Nuts PBUH 4 in Military

2006-10-05 16:32:36 · 7 answers · asked by nikki b 1 in Other - Politics & Government

identifying foley as a dem is not only a lie, it's an act of desparation that exposes all viewers of Faux news as those who need to be told what they want to hear....sorry, foley is a rightwing scum,,,,like all the rest.

2006-10-05 16:31:49 · 15 answers · asked by bush-deathgrip 1 in Politics

i am a foriegner and i wanna work while studying, at fast food restruant, it is allowed?i am at secondary level.

2006-10-05 16:31:27 · 13 answers · asked by needhelp 2 in Law & Ethics

it's for hmwk.....plzzzz help.

2006-10-05 16:31:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Firebrand Larry Kramer says he has the evidence to prove it. Lincoln scholars are holding their fire until they see it. Get ready for the second Civil War.



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By Carol Lloyd


May 3, 1999 | The 28-year-old traveler was tall, with rough hands, a chiseled jaw and unforgettable, deep-set, melancholy eyes. He arrived in town, his worldly possessions in two battered suitcases, and inquired at a general store about buying some bedding. But the price was far beyond his budget. The strikingly handsome 23-year-old merchant took pity on the man and invited him into his own bed, free of charge, which happened to be just upstairs. The traveler inspected the bed and, looking into the merchant's sparkling blue eyes, agreed on the spot. For the next four years the two men shared that bed along with their most private fears and desires.

If this sounds like the opening of a homoerotic dime-store novel whose subsequent scenes feature fiery loins and ecstatic eruptions, hold your panting. The year is 1837, the place Springfield, Ill., and the leading men none other than our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, and his lifelong friend Joshua Speed.

It is a story that historians have told and retold, puzzled over and reinterpreted, dismissed and decorated. Some describe Lincoln's acceptance of Joshua Speed's generous offer as terse and matter-of-fact; others as beaming and emotional. What none of them questions is that Lincoln and Speed's years of living together cemented a friendship unparalleled in its intimacy and tenderness in Lincoln's life. So far, all major historians have stopped short of intimating that Lincoln was ever involved in a romantic affair with a man -- in fact, they explicitly discourage such interpretations.

But Larry Kramer, the 62-year-old gay rights hell-raiser, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter ("Women in Love") and Pulitzer-nominated playwright ("The Normal Heart"), wants to change all that. In February, at a gay and lesbian conference in Madison, Wis., he read a portion of his unfinished book, "The American People" -- which, in the course of describing the history of gays in early America, avers that Lincoln and Speed were not merely bedfellows but lovers.

"There's no question in my mind he was a gay man and a totally gay man," Kramer declares. "It wasn't just a period, but something that went on his whole life."

Like the rumors that Thomas Jefferson had sired the children of his young slave Sally Hemings, questions about Speed and Lincoln's relationship have circulated for years. In "Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years" (1926), Carl Sandburg wrote that their relationship had "a streak of lavender and spots soft as May violets," which some have taken as a veiled reference to homosexuality. In 1995, just after Bob Dole rejected campaign contributions from the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay GOP group, Log Cabin member W. Scott Thompson was quoted in the New York Times as saying that gays should feel welcome in the party, "given that the founder was gay." Novelist Paul Russell, author of "The Gay 100," a ranking of the world's most important gay figures, also investigated the rumors but chose not to include Lincoln, feeling that the case was not strong enough, though he did include questionable figures like Shakespeare and Madonna. In an interview that will appear in a forthcoming anthology called "Sexual Writings by Gore Vidal," Gore Vidal told Kramer some years ago that during the research for the historical novel "Lincoln," Vidal too began to suspect that Lincoln was gay.

Like most of Lincoln's early private life, the story of his friendship with Speed is a murky one -- although not nearly as murky as Lincoln's early liaisons with women. After four years of living in intimate quarters, Speed announced plans to sell the store and return to his home in Kentucky, where his family owned a large plantation. Lincoln, who was notoriously awkward and shy around women, was at the time engaged to a vivacious, if temperamental, society girl named Mary Todd, but as the date of Speed's departure and the marriage approached, Lincoln cracked. He wanted to break the engagement by letter, but at Speed's entreaty, he went to Mary Todd and told her face to face he did not love her. Some argue that Lincoln had fallen in love with another woman. Soon after, Speed departed, leaving Lincoln mired in depression and guilt.

Seven months later Lincoln traveled to Speed's home in Kentucky, where he spent a month being nursed back to health. After that the two men corresponded affectionately for decades, chronicling their most personal internal conflicts -- including their abject fear of marriage, which they ominously refer to in their correspondence (always emphasized) as forebodings. Speed was the first to approach the altar successfully, an ordeal that Lincoln coached him through with tender but not altogether convincing letters of encouragement. It seemed that Speed was on the verge of a premarital meltdown similar to Lincoln's. "If you went through the ceremony calmly, or even with sufficient composure not to excite alarm in anyone present, you are safe, beyond question," Lincoln wrote just after the date of Speed's betrothal, "and in two or three months, to say the most, will be the happiest of men." Subsequent clandestine letters inquired whether Speed really was "happier or, if you think the term preferable, less miserable." Both men eventually married and had children; they remained close until they had a falling-out in 1855 over the issue of slavery.

2006-10-05 16:29:20 · 6 answers · asked by IM THE GAY GOD ALL FEAR ME 5 in Other - Politics & Government

There's this speaker, she's a woman and very Republican. She's young(ish) and blonde? What's her name? Anything else you can tell me about her. She's not a politician, just a public speaker.

2006-10-05 16:28:58 · 6 answers · asked by blu moon 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-05 16:28:42 · 16 answers · asked by Labatt113 4 in Politics

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/05/content_5170147.htm

Mexico warns U.S. of referral to UN over border fencing plan


2006-10-05

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican government on Wednesday warned that it may refer Washington's plan to build fences on the U.S.- Mexico border to the United Nations.

The U.S. plan to build about 1,125 km of new fencing along the U.S.- Mexico border was an "offense," Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez told a news briefing here.

When asked if the Mexican government would refer the issue to the United Nations, he said it was "examining with the foreign relations legal team what options are open at an international level, and we will take them."

He said the fences would hurt the bilateral relations. "Just the idea of a wall, a fence ... is an insult to good neighbors."

2006-10-05 16:28:26 · 10 answers · asked by NoBama For Me 2 in Immigration

Down to hell with ya for all the killing that you have done with your Demonic like actions.............

2006-10-05 16:27:19 · 14 answers · asked by tom science 4 in Politics