Politics & Government - 5 April 2007

www.thepeacealliance.org
I think its focus on peace and education, violence in the U.S., and international peace efforts is fantastic!

2007-04-05 15:07:11 · 14 answers · asked by Habitus 4 in Politics

I'm so sick of flyers and flyers and flyers every time I get my mail. I want to scream. I keep getting ads for Charter (cable co.) and stupid catalogs I've NEVER ordered from (and never will). Seriously every single day of my life there are 2-5 flyers and catalogs in my mailbox. I can't afford the trash bags to keep throwing them away.

Is there any legal way to get them to stop, like a do not call list for your phone?

Can you really mail them back, using return-to-sender? Will the post office honor return to sender?

2007-04-05 15:05:16 · 9 answers · asked by pancakes & hyrup 6 in Law & Ethics

against the people that they represent and turn on them???????????????????????????????

2007-04-05 15:02:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-04-05 15:00:28 · 8 answers · asked by ? 6 in Law & Ethics

Once we leave, it will not be so easy to go back. Whats your opinion?

2007-04-05 14:58:49 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I'm pretty good in English, not so good in Math, but I can still handle basic Math....

2007-04-05 14:57:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

No? ... how about it then?

A welcoming dinner for new incoming Senators Tester, Casey, McCaskill, Webb, Menendez, and Brown as well as the many, many new congressional Democrats.

Tell your chefs ... no baloney sandwiches for these fine folks.

Could you have Laura bake some of her famous cookies? ... those kind she personally delivered to the poor people in the Superdome after the Hurricane Katrina disaster?

For entertainment, could you have Rumsfeld come back and do his skit again about a scowling, senile old fool ... that always cracks up the house.

2007-04-05 14:56:50 · 2 answers · asked by HillBillieNot 3 in Politics

papers that I have a felony in New Jersey for assault and battery when I have never eve been there before in my life ?????????????????????????????????

2007-04-05 14:54:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

and we all know what that led to. am i wrong?

2007-04-05 14:52:56 · 8 answers · asked by afterflakes 4 in Law & Ethics

Maybe a total of 30 nukes spread out across the globe in the most heavily populated areas?

2007-04-05 14:51:52 · 16 answers · asked by Ugly Betty 3 in Politics

If Jesus said "turn the other cheek," "how you treat the least among you is how you treat me," "love thy neighbor," and "let he who has never sinned throw the first stone;" isn't waging war anywhere in direct defiance of these dictates? Did Jesus ever say there were exceptions to these directives? If not, why do so many Christians who name their religion for Jesus Christ and worship Him as God, support a war in Iraq that would be in direct contrast to His word? Serious replies only please.

2007-04-05 14:50:48 · 13 answers · asked by BOOM 7 in Military

2007-04-05 14:48:30 · 16 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics

With so many CCTV cameras on the streets, in shops, bars, pubs, buses and trains. RFID chips in books, on cans of beans and even on bought flowers, with the proposal for an 'ID' card to take photographs in public places, interveiws for new passport applicants, and the proposed ID card...Is Britain becoming a Nanny State or more like George Orwell's 1984 Big Brother with eyes and tenticles everywhere and on everyone.

2007-04-05 14:47:17 · 10 answers · asked by eastglam 4 in Government

since they frequently call each other that.

Now, why was I not allowed to finish spelling that "N" word when a VERY similar question asked yesterday ( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070404143038AAYFVEj&r=w#G5UuAW34EVSBmoUqdr5v ) which indicated "that white people accept being called GRINGO" is STILL up? Could there be some anti-white racial bias among the Q&A staff? Why can I say GRINGO all day long but not N..... even once?

2007-04-05 14:44:55 · 10 answers · asked by Lavrenti Beria 6 in Politics

I found something in my closet that my roommate says the old tenant left behind. This item is fairly valuable and I could sell it for $100 (I posted it for sale and have 2 offers already.) I am moving and need to clean out the apartment anyway, so is it okay if I sell it?

2007-04-05 14:43:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

This was a very well thought out and excellently written explanation of what is happening.

THE WAR

Please take the time to read the essay below by Dr. Chong. It is without a doubt the most logical and well thought out piece I have read yet on the war on terror.


This WAR is for REAL!
Dr. Vernon Chong, Major General, USAF, Retired
Tuesday, July 12, 2005.

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it. Our country is now facing the most
serious threat to its existence, as we know it, that we have faced in your lifetime and mine
(which includes WWII).

The deadly seriousness is greatly compounded by the fact that there are very few of us who
think we can possibly lose this war and even fewer who realize what losing really means.

First, let's examine a few basics:

1. When did the threat to us start?
Many will say September 11, 2001. The answer as far as the United States is concerned is
1979, 22 years prior to September 2001, with the following attacks on us:

* Iran Embassy Hostages, 1979;
* Beirut, Lebanon Embassy 1983;
* Beirut, Lebanon Marine Barracks 1983;
* Lockerbie, Scotland Pan-Am flight to New York 1988;
* First New York World Trade Center attack 1993;
* Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Khobar Towers Military complex 1996;
* Nairobi, Kenya US Embassy 1998;
* Dares Salaam, Tanzania US Embassy 1998;
* Aden, Yemen USS Cole 2000;
* New York World Trade Center 2001;
* Pentagon 2001.

(Note that during the period from 1981 to 2001 there were 7,581 terrorist attacks worldwide).

2. Why were we attacked?
Envy of our position, our success, and our freedoms. The attacks happened during the
administrations of Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton and Bush 2. We cannot fault
either the Republicans or Democrats as there were no provocations by any of the presidents
or their immediate predecessors, Presidents Ford or Carter.

3. Who were the attackers?
In each case, the attacks on the US were carried out by Muslims.

4. What is the Muslim population of the World? 25%.

5. Isn't the Muslim Religion peaceful?
Hopefully, but that is really not material. There is no doubt that the predominately Christian
population of Germany was peaceful, but under the dictatorial leadership of Hitler (who was
also Christian), that made no difference. You either went along with the administration or
you were eliminated. There were 5 to 6 million Christians killed by the Nazis for political
reasons (including 7,000 Polish priests). (see http://www.nazis.testimony.co.uk/7-a.htm...

Thus, almost the same number of Christians were killed by the Nazis, as the six million
holocaust Jews who were killed by them, and we seldom heard of anything other than the
Jewish atrocities. Although Hitler kept the world focused on the Jews, he had no hesitancy
about killing anyone who got in his way of exterminating the Jews or of taking over the world
- German, Christian or any others.

Same with the Muslim terrorists. They focus the world on the US, but kill all in the way --
their own people or the Spanish, French or anyone else. The point here is that just like the
peaceful Germans were of no protection to anyone from the Nazis, no matter how many
peaceful Muslims there may be, they are no protection for us from the terrorist Muslim
leaders and what they are fanatically bent on doing -- by their own pronouncements --
killing all of us "infidels." I don't blame the peaceful Muslims. What would you do if the
choice was shut up or die?

6. So who are we at war with?
There is no way we can honestly respond that it is anyone other than the Muslim terrorists.
Trying to be politically correct and avoid verbalizing this conclusion can well be fatal. There
is no way to win if you don't clearly recognize and articulate who you are fighting. So with
that background, now to the two major questions:

1. Can we lose this war?

2. What does losing really mean?

If we are to win, we must clearly answer these two pivotal questions. We can definitely lose
this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many
of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads,
bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post Vietnam. This is as far
from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but
rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just
wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us,
over the past 18 years. The plan was clearly, for terrorists to attack us, until we were
neutered and submissive to them.

We would of course have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for
the reason that they would see, we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier
for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong
for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq. Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed
their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be
done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and
realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists
without us. However, it may already be too late for France. France is already 20% Muslim and
fading fast!

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know
it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us, if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we
can't stop the Muslims, how could anyone else?

The Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed
to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the
costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning.
And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is, defeating ourselves
by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full
support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to
be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death
seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the
terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary
Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously?
This is war! For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we
have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights
temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII,
and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness, and
all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of
those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost
seems they would literally like to see us lose. I hasten to add that this isn't because they
are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless,
that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It
concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the
treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We
have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war,
by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few
months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands,
cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing
with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own
people for the same reason. They are also the same type of enemy fighters, who recently
were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq.

And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos to all
news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thought
and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not
burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading
them, but "humiliating" them.
Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense.
If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the
seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the
disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look
like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the
real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say,
this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply
means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in, and
into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.

Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into ALL
non-Muslims -- not just in the United States, but throughout the world.

We are the last bastion of defense. We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.'
That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so
good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us,
and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world!

We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country
in the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech,
freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone --
let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in
one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated
in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire. If, that is, the Muslim leaders
will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in
the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and
continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be
fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to
weaken them and keep them from any united resolve. Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force.
Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide that they
abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power.
They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing
each other over who will be the few who control the masses. Will we ever stop hearing
from the politically correct, about the "peaceful Muslims"?

I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way
that we can lose. I hope the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation
we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about!
Do whatever you can to preserve it.

After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our
grandchildren, our country and the world.

Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians
and media of our country and the free world

2007-04-05 14:43:08 · 15 answers · asked by buddafly_2 2 in Politics

I'm runnig for president! I need some speech ideas and themes. Try writing a speech for me. Nuthin bout the issues or promising anyone. Make it funny and approprate. Come up with a theme to go along with it. Like a skit I could do with the speech or sumthin.

2007-04-05 14:40:41 · 7 answers · asked by ~sKyLaR~ 1 in Elections

Thanks Mr. Bush...

2007-04-05 14:39:17 · 42 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics

His taxable salary is $600k out of his total compensation of $28 mill. Thank you Bush for sparing him from being heavily taxed on a tiny percentage of his $28 mill.

2007-04-05 14:37:03 · 8 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics

Everyone on this board knows that three Republicans went to Syria also, but all the conservatives seem to conveniently forget to mention that fact.

So, are those posting about Pelosi unable to see their own hypocrisy, or does it just not matter to them?


Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070405/ap_on_go_co/republicans_syria

2007-04-05 14:32:40 · 24 answers · asked by Steve 6 in Politics

Clearly he understands exactly who Hillary is,that's how he knew that 1984 fit her perfectly.

2007-04-05 14:31:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-04-05 14:31:43 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I'm l iving in USA, Oklahoma city. Last week, when I were buying gas, a man jumped on me, hit me continously with his fist, he didn't say anything, I can't fight back because he was too tough, (nobody was there to stop him, it was in middle night) so I pull the gun out, and said "Stop, or I shoot!", but he's move on, I have no choice... I shot in his chest.
Later, it was confirmed that he's dead in hospital. I don't know who he is and never meet him before in my life. Up until now, I don't even know the reason why he jumped on me, (maybe because of money or maybe because he is psycho).
My dad bailed me out.
What will happen to me, is it legal self-defense? If I will have to be convicted, what is the maximum sentence for me?

Thanks all

2007-04-05 14:28:49 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

How would the Dem's react?

Would they take the side of Cuba...or the U.S?

Would they view them as "hostages" or "captives"?

And if Bush subsequently "pardoned" them, gave them gifts and sent them on their way, would he be a great humanitarian...or a criminal?

2007-04-05 14:25:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

why dosen't the military get a newer aircraft to substitute, like a more new more efficent boeing 747 modified for the military?

The instruments in the flight deck aren't even LCD screen...they are those really old only green screens for radadr. Things in commercial aircraft these days are made with this equipment, why dosent the military get a new one?

2007-04-05 14:24:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-04-05 14:23:20 · 16 answers · asked by Kidd Dynamite 2 in Military

How does killing 4 armed british and 5 armed american occupiers equal terrorism?

2007-04-05 14:21:04 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am in need of a custody attorney in Boone,North Carolina. The problem is that I need to find one that would donate their time to my case. My husband and I are disabled and have limited income. My grandbabies lives are hanging in the balance and are with someone who made a false report to get custody of them. The are with someone that is violent and that has a history of such. Also they are exposed to persons who use illegal drugs and abuse alcohol on a daily basis. Please If you know of lawyer that is willing to save 2 babies of 27 months and 16 months old please let me know.
Val in NC

2007-04-05 14:15:48 · 4 answers · asked by valovesnc2 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-04-05 14:15:27 · 8 answers · asked by Jedi 4 in Politics

Israel is upset about a new huge advanced weapons and defense system , Bush & Neocons want to sell to Saudies
and another Gulf states-------do u think AIPAC's power will be able to cancel the huge deal---put in mind that most the neocons are drooling over that deal.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070405/pl_afp/usisraelsaudiarms_070405094800

2007-04-05 14:14:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics