Politics & Government - 27 December 2006

Just wondering, since I am one. I don't want this to be an excuse for liberals to throw more trash at us, so please leave my question alone if that is your intention!

2006-12-27 14:53:52 · 10 answers · asked by Make a wish 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Pro lifers would you have been against Hitler or Sadam Hussain being aborted?

2006-12-27 14:48:23 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am just curious ...

I had read the article that mentioned when Gerald Ford was young, he had turned down offers from NFL teams to become a professional football player. Why did he reject these offers?

2006-12-27 14:46:40 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

the average employee at Walmart earn less than $20,000, of 1,800,000 employees 5% (90,000) are on Medacaid and another 16% (288,000) are completely uninsured, should we as taxpayers pay the cost of Walmart's employee healthcare, is this really capitalism at its best?

2006-12-27 14:46:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-12-27 14:45:58 · 7 answers · asked by scarlettlpz 1 in Law & Ethics

if they really are, I mean other people would already know this

anyway action speaks louder than words, and a lot of the illegals latinos seem to be all words and very little action and respect

chinese people have a stereotype of being very hard workers and very well deserved so,,, but I'm still waiting on the verdict of this latino work ethic superiority claim,,,,I mean seriously,,pick another angle pro-illegals

2006-12-27 14:41:48 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-12-27 14:40:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Former president Gerald R. Ford said in an embargoed interview in July 2004 that the Iraq war was not justified. "I don't think I would have gone to war," he said a little more than a year after President Bush had launched the invasion advocated and carried out by prominent veterans of Ford's own administration. In a four-hour conversation at his house in Beaver Creek, Colo., Ford "very strongly" disagreed with the current president's justifications for invading Iraq and said he would have pushed alternatives, such as sanctions, much more vigorously. In the tape-recorded interview, Ford was critical not only of Bush but also of Vice President Cheney — Ford's White House chief of staff — and then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who served as Ford's chief of staff and then his Pentagon chief. “Rumsfeld and Cheney and the president made a big mistake in justifying going into the war in Iraq. They put the emphasis on weapons of mass destruction," Ford said. "And now, I've never publicly said I thought they made a mistake, but I felt very strongly it was an error in how they should justify what they were going to do." In a conversation that veered between the current realities of a war in the Middle East and the old complexities of the war in Vietnam whose bitter end he presided over as president, Ford took issue with the notion of the United States entering a conflict in service of the idea of spreading democracy. "Well, I can understand the theory of wanting to free people," Ford said, referring to Bush's assertion that the United States has a "duty to free people." But the former president said he was skeptical "whether you can detach that from the obligation number one, of what's in our national interest." He added: "And I just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security."
To be published after his death
The Ford interview — and a subsequent lengthy conversation in 2005 — took place for a future book project, though he said his comments could be published at any time after his death. In the sessions, Ford fondly recalled his close working relationship with key Bush advisers Cheney and Rumsfeld while expressing concern about the policies they pursued in more recent years. "He was an excellent chief of staff. First class," Ford said. "But I think Cheney has become much more pugnacious" as vice president. He said he agreed with former secretary of state Colin L. Powell's assertion that Cheney developed a "fever" about the threat of terrorism and Iraq. "I think that's probably true." Describing his own preferred policy toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Ford said he would not have gone to war, based on the publicly available information at the time, and would have worked harder to find an alternative. "I don't think, if I had been president, on the basis of the facts as I saw them publicly," he said, "I don't think I would have ordered the Iraq war. I would have maximized our effort through sanctions, through restrictions, whatever, to find another answer." Ford had faced his own military crisis — not a war he started like Bush, but one he had to figure out how to end. In many ways those decisions framed his short presidency — in the difficult calculations about how to pull out of Vietnam and the challenging players who shaped policy on the war. Most challenging of all, as Ford recalled, was Henry A. Kissinger, who was both secretary of state and national security adviser and had what Ford said was "the thinnest skin of any public figure I ever knew." "I think he was a super secretary of state," Ford said, "but Henry in his mind never made a mistake, so whatever policies there were that he implemented, in retrospect he would defend." In 1975, Ford decided to relieve Kissinger of his national security title. "Why Nixon gave Henry both secretary of state and head of the NSC, I never understood," Ford said. "Except he was a great supporter of Kissinger. Period." But Ford viewed Kissinger's dual roles as a conflict of interest that weakened the administration's ability to fully air policy debates. "They were supposed to check on one another." That same year, Ford also decided to fire Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger and replace him with Rumsfeld, who was then Ford's White House chief of staff. Ford recalled that he then used that decision to go to Kissinger and say, "I'm making a change at the secretary of defense, and I expect you to be a team player and work with me on this" by giving up the post of security adviser.

2006-12-27 14:40:18 · 10 answers · asked by zeca do trombone 5 in Military

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2006-12-27 14:36:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Hi. I just want to know what is the best way to escape a police helicopter aswell as pursuit cars with some cargo. I was told the best way to escape a chopper is a hayabusa, but it does not space for cargo.

If its a car what car is best for UK or any other vehicle.

2006-12-27 14:36:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-12-27 14:34:20 · 7 answers · asked by rao 1 in Immigration

Common law states that it is not murder if feet are delivered first.....So, abortionists turn the baby, deliver the feet, then puncture the base of the brain and suck the brain out.....this is all true...many of these abortions are done because the women is depressed about being pregnant.....

2006-12-27 14:34:00 · 20 answers · asked by Patrick C 2 in Government

For instance, are retailers required to pay your return shipping when returning a defective product? If you decide to go with another brand and not exchange with the same retailer, are they required to reimburse the initial shipping cost to you?

2006-12-27 14:33:41 · 3 answers · asked by alferzz 2 in Law & Ethics

is this the feeling any of you guys get?tell me cuz i want to know if im the only one or if this is a usual felling i love my country id die for it and the songs just break me open and i get tears in my eyes is this normal?

2006-12-27 14:31:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2006-12-27 14:27:55 · 15 answers · asked by desertflower 5 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-12-27 14:25:51 · 20 answers · asked by Edward 1 in Politics

that cigarettes were neither addicted nor harmful, were they paid off by the tobacco industry or were they really that stupid?

2006-12-27 14:21:11 · 7 answers · asked by Edward 1 in Politics

Can you generalize about the difference between people you know you have and have not experimented with drugs?

2006-12-27 14:18:47 · 13 answers · asked by justagirl33552 4 in Other - Politics & Government

If so, what do they think of all these anti-bush & anti-war postings?

2006-12-27 14:17:55 · 17 answers · asked by mstrywmn 7 in Military

Here in NC places of employment are starting a policy that if you dont speak english you better learn or your pay gets cut! I think its fair! Why pay for translators on a job with legal tax payer dollars ..especially construction where you can get seriously injured if you cant communicate with each other?? I think some fake that they cant speak english ..especially when crimes are commited ..Why should we change our native language...o yeah thats another place our taxes go ...to translate english signs into spanish...does any other country do that as much as America?

2006-12-27 14:17:37 · 16 answers · asked by arrington7530 3 in Immigration

And, does that go for moving also?
Does this vary from state to state?

2006-12-27 14:16:40 · 7 answers · asked by goddess1 2 in Law & Ethics

I know that Georgia and Alabama don't allow alcohol sales on Sunday. I heard that in Florida you can buy alcohol on Sunday, but after 1pm? Are there any other states that have restrictions on buying alcohol on Sundays? LINK ME something or help with the info!!

2006-12-27 14:15:21 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I got a parking ticket for a meter violation, but when I looked at the meter, it still had seven minutes left. I took pictures of the meter and my car. Do I have any chance in fighting the ticket?

2006-12-27 14:13:39 · 13 answers · asked by D_Z 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-12-27 14:13:37 · 11 answers · asked by wonder 2 in Military

2006-12-27 14:11:38 · 7 answers · asked by Dr.O 5 in Other - Politics & Government

How can a citizen quickly verify the authenticity of a uniformed law enforcement officer, and thus minimize the amount of time vulnerable to a potential impersonator?

It isn't that difficult to replicate the uniform, equipment, and even "badge" (the gold star) of an officer. If a policemen addressed you in uniform while assuming the role of a law enforcement agent, how would you minimize your risks both with the law and with the potential harm of an impersonator?

2006-12-27 14:10:30 · 12 answers · asked by Andy 4 in Law Enforcement & Police

I want to send an card to my clients who is now away in NY. All his email and postal address is in the company's database and my email is intended to be personal. Do you think I am going to breach the law of privacy if I use his email ( which is in company's data base) to send an ecard to him?
Thanks

2006-12-27 14:08:37 · 4 answers · asked by Denim 1 in Law & Ethics

President Ford died at the age of 93

2006-12-27 14:08:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13473

2006-12-27 14:07:25 · 5 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

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2006-12-27 14:05:52 · 5 answers · asked by to protect and serve 2 in Law Enforcement & Police