Politics & Government - 5 November 2006

Do you think a war turning around the control of water reserves is possible? How far would it go?

2006-11-05 05:16:44 · 4 answers · asked by JarJar Odd 2 in Military

2006-11-05 05:16:37 · 7 answers · asked by samfoster_pd 1 in Law & Ethics

YOU ARE VOTING FOR TERRORIST TO WIN"

SO If "a democrat" equals Satan and "democrats" equals terrorists Does this mean that Democrats are Satan' terrorist minions???

Bush knows the importance of speech. Like he told Kerry "it's important to say what speech means"

2006-11-05 05:15:57 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

PROOF: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1305709,00.html

"The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal."

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/exec-m29.shtml

"The sister of a British soldier killed in Iraq has denounced Prime Minister Tony Blair for lying about the circumstances of his death."

PROOF: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/18/iraq/main2100819.shtml
"Four soldiers from the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division will be court-martialed for the alleged rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her family, and two will face the death penalty, "

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38408
"Fake rape photos infuriate Arab world - Iraq prisoner abuse scandal compounded by dissemination of graphic porn images"

PROOF: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001442_pf.html

655,000 more people have died.

2006-11-05 05:15:20 · 17 answers · asked by Pero 1 in Politics

2006-11-05 05:15:19 · 2 answers · asked by samfoster_pd 1 in Law & Ethics

Compare U.S. voting with foreign voting and it's not a pretty sight. Americans are less apt to vote than are people in other old democracies, in new ones, in dangerous places, dirt poor ones, freezing cold ones, stinking hot ones and highly dysfunctional ones.

2006-11-05 05:14:38 · 14 answers · asked by Nick 2 in Elections

2006-11-05 05:13:21 · 7 answers · asked by poeticrein01 1 in Elections

Before we leave Iraq, the electricity, the water, the roads, the hospitals and the schools must be returned to the way they were before they were destroyed by this war. If this had been done immediately after "Mission Accomplished", there might not have been an insurgency. If it's done now, Iraq may not remain a training ground for terrorism. What do you think?

Please don't disappoint me by telling me this is a dumb question and I'm a *!!&**%##** idiot for asking it. I know that, already.

2006-11-05 05:12:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If I receive an e-mail that I think is criminal is there an adress that I can foreward it to in hopes to report the crime?

2006-11-05 05:10:48 · 10 answers · asked by jjs12109 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

http://www.gvny.com/columns/schiff/wallet.html
will this keep me from getting mistakenly shot by cops?

2006-11-05 05:09:47 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-11-05 05:09:44 · 7 answers · asked by サンダース 2 in Law & Ethics

The Sunday Times - Britain

The Sunday Times November 05, 2006

Doctors: let us kill disabled babies
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Health Correspondent
ONE of Britain’s royal medical colleges is calling on the health profession to consider permitting the euthanasia of seriously disabled newborn babies.

The proposal by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology is a reaction to the number of such children surviving because of medical advances. The college is arguing that “active euthanasia” should be considered for the overall good of families, to spare parents the emotional burden and financial hardship of bringing up the sickest babies.

“A very disabled child can mean a disabled family,” it says. “If life-shortening and deliberate interventions to kill infants were available, they might have an impact on obstetric decision-making, even preventing some late abortions, as some parents would be more confident about continuing a pregnancy and taking a risk on outcome.”

Geneticists and medical ethicists supported the proposal — as did the mother of a severely disabled child — but a prominent children’s doctor described it as “social engineering”.

The college called for “active euthanasia” of newborns to be considered as part of an inquiry into the ethical issues raised by the policy of prolonging life in newborn babies. The inquiry is being carried out by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.

The college’s submission to the inquiry states: “We would like the working party to think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions, the best interests test and active euthanasia as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns.”

Initially, the inquiry did not address euthanasia of newborns as this is illegal in Britain. The college has succeeded in having it considered. Although it says it is not formally calling for active euthanasia to be introduced, it wants the mercy killing of newborn babies to be debated by society.

The report does not spell out which conditions might justify euthanasia, but in the Netherlands mercy killing is permitted for a range of incurable conditions, including severe spina bifida and the painful skin condition called epidermolysis bullosa.

Dr Pieter Sauer, co-author of the Groningen Protocol, the Dutch national guidelines on euthanasia of newborns, claims British paediatricians perform mercy killings, and says the practice should be open.

Sauer, head of the department of paediatrics at the University Medical Centre Groningen, said: “In England they have exactly the same type of patients as we have here. English neonatologists gave me the indication that this is happening.”

Although euthanasia for severely handicapped newborn babies would prove contentious, some British doctors and ethicists are now in favour. Joy Delhanty, professor of human genetics at University College London, said: “I would support these views. I think it is morally wrong to strive to keep alive babies that are then going to suffer many months or years of very ill health.”

Dr Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, who has admitted hastening the death of two severely handicapped newborn babies when he was a junior doctor in the 1970s, said: “I wouldn’t argue against this.” He spoke of the “pain, distress and discomfort” of severely handicapped babies.

The college’s submission was also welcomed by John Harris, a member of the government’s Human Genetics Commission and professor of bioethics at Manchester University. “We can terminate for serious foetal abnormality up to term but cannot kill a newborn. What do people think has happened in the passage down the birth canal to make it okay to kill the foetus at one end of the birth canal but not at the other?” he said.

Edna Kennedy of Newcastle upon Tyne, whose son suffered epidermolysis bullosa, said: “In extremely controlled circumstances, where the baby is really suffering, it should be an option for the mother.”

However, John Wyatt, consultant neonatologist at University College London hospital, said: “Intentional killing is not part of medical care.” He added: “The majority of doctors and health professionals believe that once you introduce the possibility of intentional killing into medical practice you change the fundamental nature of medicine. It immediately becomes a subjective decision as to whose life is worthwhile.”

If a doctor can decide whether a life is worth living, “it changes medicine into a form of social engineering where the aim is to maximise the benefit for society and minimise those who are perceived as worthless”.

Simone Aspis of the British Council of Disabled People said: “If we introduced euthanasia for certain conditions it would tell adults with those conditions that they were worth less than other members of society.”

2006-11-05 05:08:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I often check our local state registry for our county. This guy is a registered sex offender but listed as non-designated. I'm not sure what this means. The reason for my question is to find out if he is legally allowed to roam near the local grade school...I happen to see him the other day after dropping my child off...it turned my stomache to say the least...I contact our local sheriffs dept. and the main man wasn't in but the officer I spoke with said according to his file he seen no limitation or restriction of where this guy can walk and to call back Monday and disscuss it with the sheriff. I did confirm with the officer that this person is indeed a registered sex offender, I also heard thru small town gossip it may have been with a girl who was between 14-16...still regaurdless of age this "child" was still under the age of 18....please explain this non-designated.....to me....im racking my brain here!

2006-11-05 05:08:33 · 2 answers · asked by slykitty 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1101-33.htm

I could recite all the evidence, but I am sure you’ve heard it; you see it every day, all around you. Despite continued growth in the economy, real median household income declined between 2000 and 2004. Between 1980 and 2004, real wages in manufacturing fell 1 percent while the real income of the richest 1 percent rose – by 135 percent. In 1976 the top 1 percent of Americans owned 22 percent of our total wealth. Today, the top 1 percent controls 38 percent of our total wealth. In 1960, the gap in terms of wealth between the top 20 percent and the bottom 20 percent was 30 fold. Now it is more than 75 fold.

Such concentrations of wealth would be far less of an issue if the rest of society were benefiting proportionately. But that’s not the case. According to Census Bureau data, Americans have become progressively less likely to advance up the socio-economic ladder.

2006-11-05 05:07:17 · 10 answers · asked by Jeremy 2 in Other - Politics & Government

"Conservatives without a conscience"

http://www.amazon.com/Conservatives-Without-Conscience-John-Dean/dp/0670037745/sr=8-1/qid=1162749735/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-7234188-1083802?ie=UTF8&s=books

Has anyone read it?

2006-11-05 05:06:25 · 3 answers · asked by Dastardly 6 in Politics

None of you are clever enough to think of it on your own, so which attack ad or talking point did this come off? Oh Im sorry or unbiased news source?

2006-11-05 05:06:11 · 15 answers · asked by Perplexed 7 in Politics

2006-11-05 05:02:04 · 9 answers · asked by kissmybum 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Is it coincidence? Most fags , lesbians, queers, pedophiles, and other sexual perverts and criminals live all together in South Florida!!!!

2006-11-05 05:01:35 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-11-05 05:01:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-11-05 04:59:06 · 22 answers · asked by jordan p 1 in Politics

2006-11-05 04:57:57 · 17 answers · asked by Perplexed 7 in Politics

Forgive me for asking, but aren't you supposed to be in church on a Sunday morning? Praising Jesus...maybe asking him for a miracle on Nov. 7?

; )

2006-11-05 04:56:50 · 16 answers · asked by powhound 7 in Politics

they want california to lead the nation in not using gas and never drive our auto. take money from the middle class to give to lower class and rich and tax and spend

2006-11-05 04:56:34 · 4 answers · asked by annie g 1 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-11-05 04:54:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

If you were to commit a crime, say murder, at 2am when BST ends, and you had an alibi for 1am, would you get away with it?

2006-11-05 04:53:46 · 8 answers · asked by highrevs 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-11-05 04:53:23 · 15 answers · asked by tiffany S 2 in Politics

,,yes!
How

2006-11-05 04:50:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

If so, how difficult was the process, and roughly how long did it take from your fiance(e) filing the petition to you receiving your visa?

I'm about to begin this process - my fiancee will be filing the petition in the next week or so. I've seen various wildly differing accounts as to how time-consuming/difficult it can be.

Also, any information on getting a work permit once in the US would also help - I'm not looking to be a bum once I get there...

2006-11-05 04:45:46 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

If terrorists set off suitcase nukes in several major U.S. cities in a coordinated attack killing tens of thousand of Americans, would liberals in our country be willing then to wage total war on terrorists or would they excuse it away.

2006-11-05 04:45:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-11-05 04:45:26 · 1 answers · asked by TANNER 2 in Law & Ethics