Politics & Government - 7 October 2006

Hint: The Declaration of Independence isn't the constitution.

2006-10-07 12:28:29 · 19 answers · asked by notme 5 in Politics

If the butcher of baghdad is a monster like they tell us why would a former U.S. Attorney General be on his defense team.

2006-10-07 12:28:15 · 7 answers · asked by J S 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-07 12:26:18 · 24 answers · asked by black_collar_boy270 1 in Military

From the point of view of morality, is drinking and driving excusable and forgivable or is doing this absolutely unacceptable and inexcusable? Of course it is illegal, but this question is about morals. Picture someone you know drinking and driving, how can you ever think of them the same again? Note: They need not have killed someone while drinking and driving to be thought of negatively.

2006-10-07 12:25:54 · 16 answers · asked by surfer2966 4 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-07 12:23:55 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Or, would the storm of public opinion have us out after some horrible battle, before the job was done. Would the politicians be more concerned with votes than the lives of those under Hitler's rule and wrath?

Would we "cut and run" after video of the Battle of the Buldge was seen on nightly TV? Approximately 600,000 killed and wounded in WWII.....

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob62.html

2006-10-07 12:23:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-10-07 12:23:06 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

like white guilt for stealing America and slavery and iperialism
or
look at the poor oppressed black person or latino person .his/her life is going to be hard and poor minority....what if the newborn just wants to be judged on his own merit...it's kind of like socio-political abortion

can we please stop using race as an issue in immigrationin f--ing 2006?.. It is so disgusting and cowardly

2006-10-07 12:21:11 · 9 answers · asked by hittykkiod 1 in Immigration

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060204/THERALD01/60204002/-1/THERALD


is this just sick or what??

2006-10-07 12:19:57 · 25 answers · asked by hayleyluv 1 in Immigration

I always knew it was, but it took a GERMAN (if you can imagine that..lol) to illustrate this FACT...This is the TRUEST thing you will ever read about the European's method of foreign/world policy.........All I can say is...Thank God for America...and the United Kingdom...(whom is far closer to America than she is Europe)...
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)

A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Weltam Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.

Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.

Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.

Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.

Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word quidistance,"now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form! of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?

I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring European "Peace in our time". What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction. It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of t he great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.

Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.

His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed. In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values! and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.


On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic so devoid of a moral compass.

For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.

While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental cover! age, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".


These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's house.

Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice.


---God Bless America

2006-10-07 12:18:42 · 4 answers · asked by quarterback 2 in Other - Politics & Government

because he refused use of atom bomb.

2006-10-07 12:18:40 · 8 answers · asked by ? 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Eliminate the income tax and instead create a 10% sales tax on ALL goods, including food and clothing. According to figures this would double the amount paid into income tax. Believe it or not people this has been brought up by our lawmakers. How would you all feel about it? I wouldn't mind the 700 dollars a month I pay in income taxes on my check. That is damn near a house payment.

2006-10-07 12:17:21 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics

i was born and raised in india ( i am in canada ,i get so much of trouble for job finally i have good one but,racism why you come to our country and i say until 17th century india was world richest country the intruders came from european countries came & take our money & they make us poor taken our knowledge our history our gold now they behave like they are good & we are bad why is like that they have to accept it they are looters,thiefs

2006-10-07 12:16:03 · 7 answers · asked by jandugroupinc 2 in Government

received an email that listed senators that did NOT vote for English being the primary language in the US. is this a possibility?

2006-10-07 12:14:58 · 6 answers · asked by Dear 1 in Other - Politics & Government

i am an english man who is fed up of seeing in the news every day about immigrants killing and raping and trying to kill the pm (no loss) i have my own views but i would just like to find out what the rest of the country feels (true fellings not its because my friends feel that way )

2006-10-07 12:08:50 · 24 answers · asked by john s 2 in Politics

Why does the Air Force allow only 1 certain type of vision-correction eye surgery and not all of them? Which one do they allow?

2006-10-07 12:08:37 · 4 answers · asked by cactuarspike 2 in Military

The Syrian ruler appears to make preparatory justification in a statement Saturday, Oct. 7, that he expects an Israeli attack.
He was speaking in an interview to Kuwaiti paper al-Anba.
Assad’s Iranian-backed war plan would serve the purpose of forcing the Americans to divide their military assets between a strike against Iran and the defense of their allies in the Persia Gulf, Israel and US forces in Iraq. Both are seriously looking at a Syrian attack on the Golan which would escalate into a full-blown Syrian-Israeli war and a second Hizballah assault from Lebanon.
Asad’s remark that during the Lebanon hostilities, he was under pressure from the Syrian population to go to war against Israel and liberate the Golan is the most direct threat of belligerency of all his four Golan statements in the last month. He is implying that he stood up to the pressure once but may not do so again.
The Syrian ruler would not threaten war without guarantees from Iran. Assad and Iran’s supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are prompted by the following motives:
Tehran is not prepared to wait passively for the Americans to build up their assault force in the Gulf and strike its nuclear facilities. A pre-emptive attack would suit them better.
Syria now believes that if Hizballah could stand up to the Israeli army in Lebanon, its commandoes can capture sections of the Golan and walk off with an easy victory.

2006-10-07 12:04:46 · 7 answers · asked by defOf 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Why must you chastise the Bush administration when your young kids are dying at an alarming rate? Do you care for the kids on the streets, or just the war? Soliders have a job to do, kids just go out and kill each other just because it is fun. Please, worry about our kids, not the war. Why not protest against school shootings, pedophiles, rapists, murderers? Those are the people breing down our country, not the war.

2006-10-07 12:04:06 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I dont know anything about the scoring system for the ASVAB

-Is AR+MK+EI+GS=205 a hard score to get?
-When do/can you take the ASVAB?


--Thanks

2006-10-07 12:03:04 · 2 answers · asked by I Hate Liberals 4 in Military

the ones that have never done anything to you need to be deported ASAP???

2006-10-07 12:01:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

....Because He's doing a FANTASTIC job in Africa....

2006-10-07 11:58:59 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What right does my school system, Miami-Dade Public Schools, have to boycott and make us go to school on Colombus Day?

2006-10-07 11:53:59 · 11 answers · asked by Abel 3 in Law & Ethics

My brother's car was stolen outside of his apartment. He suspects his Latino neighbors that live upstairs since there are so many of them in one apartment. Do police ever question neighbors or do criminal background checks on them? Or, do they merely check abandoned cars/ cars used in crimes/ cars during traffic stops to see if they've been stolen? We should have one cop per block, I think. That's how bad this world has become and especially in the Metropolitan areas.

2006-10-07 11:53:02 · 4 answers · asked by JACQUELINE 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

.. so Canada is finally going to sign a softwood lumber deal next week with the U.S. Just how much has the new conservative government given away? Is it a good deal or a bad one for Canadians?

2006-10-07 11:52:28 · 2 answers · asked by Debra H 7 in Other - Politics & Government

Now don't get me wrong I fully support our troops they are doing their jobs and very well also. But every morning I feel for the parents who are finding out that their son or daughter will not be coming home. I work for a large fire department and 9/11 is a constant reminder ever day I know what we lost that day and I know what our men and women are fighting for but I would like to know if there could not be a better way without more blood shed of our soldiers to achieve this? I would love for peace to happen tomorrow morning so I do not have to think of one more parent, brother or sister who will loose a loved one. Any good ideas out there?

2006-10-07 11:49:38 · 19 answers · asked by fierequebecoiseauusa 2 in Military

Was charged for setting fire to personal property in the State of Tennessee, 12 years ago , did my time, would like to go to Canada to visit my future wife, With a felony charge I am not permitted to cross the boarder, been a good citizen and had no other convictions. Where do I start to have my slate cleared

2006-10-07 11:47:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I'm from Bogotá, Colombia and I see in Yahoo! Answers in spanish that the majority of mexicans and venezuelans hate the Americans. ¿Why? ¡Luck from Colombia!

2006-10-07 11:46:57 · 9 answers · asked by   2 in Government

I just a got a Dell computer and the guy told me that and ive heard of it before. And i was wondering why??

2006-10-07 11:46:43 · 7 answers · asked by ♥Riley's Mom♥ 5 in Law & Ethics

you're a train operator on duty.
up ahead you see 6 kids playing on the tracks.
you can't stop in time to avoid crashing into them.
your only other option would be to switch tracks right before you'd hit them.
but, on the other track, you see 1 kid playing on the tracks.
split-second decision: would you switch tracks?

think about who knew they were in troubled territory.
would your answer change if the 6 kids were in persistent vegetative state?

thanks :)

2006-10-07 11:46:43 · 11 answers · asked by eggygee 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-10-07 11:42:46 · 5 answers · asked by urmyfavorite 2 in Law & Ethics