Politics & Government - 26 April 2007

White House spokesperson Dana Perino called the Bill being sent to Bush as "dead before arrival". Is the GOP purposely trying to destroy itself for 40 years or more?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_on_go_co/us_iraq

2007-04-26 12:17:13 · 17 answers · asked by Gemini 5 in Politics

these idiots.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore on Thursday entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination with an Internet-driven announcement he said allows him to talk directly to voters.
If you want to talk to voters than go out and meet them, not hide behind your comp.
Furthermore, they got Goolianai Mc flashback Cain, and last but not least Romney who.
08 is gonna be great for dems again just like the take over of the house and senate.

2007-04-26 12:15:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

on Iraq. I would hate to think the most powerful military in the world can't beat a country with no military after four years. Do we throw this term around too loosely?

2007-04-26 12:14:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=752

Obviously, Bush's and Cheney's approval rating is pathetic. The funny part is that Bush's and Cheney's approval rating is 28% and 25%, but they are both higher than the Democratic Senate Majority leader Reid, who lands at a whopping 22%. Queen Pelosi is really tearing it up with a approval rating of 30%. This queen the liberals are praising are within the margin or error, so theoretically she could have a lower rating than Bush. Obviously, the same could be said about Reid being within the margin of Cheney. However, best case scenario for liberals is that they are viewed in the same rank as the Bush administration, which they despise. By the way Condi's, rating is 45%, which is higher than Queen Pelosi's as well. Let the spinning begin libs.

2007-04-26 12:05:45 · 25 answers · asked by Billy 3 in Politics

I have mixed thoughts about this. I did not approve of the pre-emptive attack on Iraq, but perhaps if the US attacked Iran it woulf create the same mess as in Iraq, and weaken the country.

I am a Democrat, but I have no use for Islam. I can not see anything good in that religion. It is a promoter of Jihad and that means killing your enemies. It also means the maltreatment of women.

2007-04-26 12:04:41 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

My bestfriend wants to join the MARINES and asked me what i thought about it. I dont know i mean is it rewarding? is it a good career? Do you think it would make him happy? Are or where you happy? I just want the truth, i know that it is hard as hell. But i have always looked out for him and him for me i just want him to be happy and have one of the best careers possible.

2007-04-26 12:03:52 · 13 answers · asked by friendofthebandnerds 2 in Military

Gun-free zones fail; concealed carry laws work
F. PAUL VALONE
If your state lawmakers killed legislation to protect students from slaughter, would you celebrate by saying, "I'm sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly's actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus"?

This 2006 hubris was courtesy of Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker. The legislation killed was House Bill 1572, which could have enabled concealed handgun permit-holders to protect themselves on college campuses; and harsh reality trumped Hincker's "feeling" of safety when Cho Seung-Hui murdered 32 at Virginia Tech.

When gun control advocates peddle their oft-failed schemes as solutions, they avoid mentioning details of three other school shootings where armed intervention saved lives:

• In Pearl, Miss., assistant principal Joel Myrick stopped triple murderer Luke Woodham using a handgun from his car.

• In Edinboro, Pa., the 14-year-old who killed a teacher at an off-campus dance was captured by shotgun-wielding James Strand.

• At Virginia's Appalachian School of Law, student Tracy Bridges used his pistol to detain murderer Peter Odighizuwa.

Beyond anecdotes, researchers John Lott and William Landes, then at Yale and the University of Chicago, respectively, studied multiple victim public shootings. Data from 1976 to 1995 showed the number of shootings in states with concealed handgun laws declined by 84 percent, deaths plummeted by 90 percent and injuries by 82.5 percent.

The two called their findings "dramatic," concluding: "[T]he only policy factor to have a consistently significant influence on multiple victim public shootings is the passage of concealed handgun laws."

Criminals don't obey laws

Like North Carolina, Virginia prohibits guns on campuses. But policies purporting to create "gun-free" zones actually increase victimization, found the researchers: "States with the fewest gun free zones have the greatest reductions [in] killings, injuries, and attacks."Indeed, of eight major school rampages tracked by The New York Times, six occurred after enactment of the federal "Gun Free School Zones Act" in 1996.

Said Lott, "Gun prohibitionists concede that banning guns around schools has not quite worked as intended -- but their response has been to call for more regulation of guns. Yet what might appear to be the most obvious policy may actually cost lives. When gun-control laws are passed, it is law-abiding citizens, not would-be criminals, who adhere to them."

Concealed carry in schools, while novel, is not untested: Utah has permitted it since 1995. If you Google "Utah school shootings," you will find exactly none. Last week, the Tennessee state house voted to join them.

Lest you picture drunken freshman shooting into the air at football games, understand that FBI background checks ensure permit-holders are age 21 and free of felonies, violent misdemeanors and demonstrated substance abuse. After 12 years under North Carolina's concealed handgun law, permit-holders have proven themselves sane, sober and law-abiding. Revocations run less than one tenth of one percent, most for reasons unrelated to guns.

Protect yourself

Moreover, the concept has support among academics: After the recent murders, Virginia Tech graduate research assistant Brad Wiles quoted his unsuccessful appeal to the school's president last August: "The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed. I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government."

Policy-makers will debate Virginia Tech's delayed emergency response and its failure to address Cho's clearly disturbed behavior; they will debate campus security. But if 32 murders say anything, it's that police have neither the ability nor -- as the Supreme Court has twice ruled -- the responsibility to protect you.

Seventy-six-year-old Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor, used his body to shield escaping Virginia students. Doubtless, the politicians who killed HB 1572 console themselves that their malfeasance didn't quite cause his murder.

But maybe N.C. lawmakers will display uncharacteristic courage by passing legislation allowing concealed handgun permit-holders to deter or stop campus rampages. Heroes such as Liviu Librescu deserve something better than their bodies to stop bullets.

F. Paul

Valone

2007-04-26 12:02:58 · 6 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

I have been doing osme researhc and have read up on the programme of action produced the U.N. The multinational narboi protocal, etc. They all suggest differnt measures. What do you think the best way to solve this growing crisis is?

2007-04-26 12:02:46 · 2 answers · asked by christopher m 1 in Military

Wow,"it's about time,'you mean to tell us all, you finally figured it out,They new that our people could'nt pass up the opportunity,to play with their creations our own weapons of mass destruction!Just to think ,a verbal conversation,was the beginning,.How will it end?

2007-04-26 12:02:22 · 6 answers · asked by JGreen 2 in Military

2007-04-26 12:02:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

It does nothing but slow us down.

2007-04-26 11:51:37 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Does anybody have websites, particularly articles, where President Bush is considered a liar? Or, he says things that he is going to do and doesnt do?

Im trying to compose an essay and I need a little bit of help.

Thanks

2007-04-26 11:44:36 · 14 answers · asked by pocho 2 in Other - Politics & Government

Rumor has it that photos of democrats actually working are hard to come by.

2007-04-26 11:44:04 · 22 answers · asked by aaroncoal 2 in Government

and by good inmigrants i mean:
Pay taxes
No crimes
Hard workers
Increase life class: (you always see inmigrants taking the wrost jobs)
Respect Americans
I have never read so much hate on the internet then in this yahoo forum....thats sad..but if you have any raciest comment... just write it..

2007-04-26 11:41:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

The question asker is accusing Rush of being a racist, when she does not even look on his homepage, where he addresses the comment.

Here is the question I refer

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070425033510AAbZ2Hq&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMhjNTUmCJGGqbc.Yw5NWNUtIZ08lbVTUcWupP8qIiO0CtFdZdG1bA59S0Q2RfDKnavA--&paid=answered#RZV7C2O6WTYD0AAzx9mdRzSnRQzPjQU7BojXm3P2MA4wn8ZuidpK

The comment was about a parody song called "Barrack the Magic *****." This was done in direct response to this article:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,5335087.story?coll=la-opinion-center

Rush responds to the issue here.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_042607/content/01125106.guest.html

Do liberals on this site ever research this stuff, or just pass on the false information they hear?

2007-04-26 11:40:46 · 8 answers · asked by Chainsaw 6 in Politics

2007-04-26 11:38:24 · 9 answers · asked by 2kool4u 5 in Politics

i think there is. the bad people just stick out more thats why we notice them more.

2007-04-26 11:37:17 · 13 answers · asked by Paco El Vago! 3 in Immigration

2007-04-26 11:36:24 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I have seen "liberalism is a mental disorder" on here about 50 times today. Are peices of crap like Coulter the people cons look to for guidance? No wonder your party is being rejected by the public.

2007-04-26 11:36:16 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-04-26 11:33:39 · 19 answers · asked by PB_Smith 1 in Politics

They are rag tag....We (USA) are the most powerful nation on earth. ( Next to China ) How is it the rag tag insurgents dance on the heads ( Butts ) of the USA military?

2007-04-26 11:29:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

The House passed a bill that would create two more seats in the House and set one of them up in the District of Colombia. This would allow the U.S. citizens who live in D.C. to have congressional representation. Bobby Jindal voted to not allow these U.S. citizens to have representation in Congress. Why?

2007-04-26 11:28:32 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

"If God Wishes to Wipe America Off the Face of the Earth... The Matter Is In His Hands"

Abu Zabadi next addresses the claim that the U.S. must be destroyed because it is an immoral country that encourages corrupt behavior such as consuming alcohol and visiting brothels. He responds that a similar argument can be used to "sanction the killing of our brothers in Yemen, Egypt, and other [countries]." Pointing out that the murder rate in Yemen is very close to that of the U.S., he asks: "Are we therefore permitted to destroy Yemen... with WMDs because of [its]... moral corruption?" He concludes, "If God wishes to wipe America off the face of the earth because of its great corruption, the matter is in His hands [and not in the hands of the mujahideen]."
http://www.theirownwords.com/

2007-04-26 11:27:16 · 6 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

illegal immigrants have more rights than us U.S citizens and that we need politicians who actually care about the American people and whats going on in this country. Who else agrees with these statements?

2007-04-26 11:25:25 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

By the way I am very sorry for being born white.

2007-04-26 11:18:06 · 21 answers · asked by crackerstud69 1 in Politics

But she can't be bothered with meeting General Petraeus in person? Even though she pretends the Iraq war is such an important issue to her.

2007-04-26 11:12:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-04-26 11:10:04 · 13 answers · asked by knighttemplar1119 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

Exact quote, Ny Post and Yahoo guest editorial, pre liberal whine, remember this is a traditionally democratic paper.

And there's the real problem: From the start, Reid and the Democrats have seen the war in Iraq as a partisan opportunity.

They refuse to present a unified front to the rest of the world - especially to America's enemies - because, in their pinched view, to do so would be to weaken their own prospects for retaking the White House in 2008.

No, Reid didn't repeat his declaration of defeat during yesterday's speech from the Senate floor.

It probably has dawned on him just how big a political blunder he committed - witness Sen. Chuck Schumer's gentle contradiction of the majority leader over the weekend, insisting that "the war is not lost."

Then again, Reid didn't have to repeat his original remarks - because the imposed timetable he announced, if enacted, would bring about precisely the same result. Their blood stands to be on his hands. (RIGHT AGAIN!

2007-04-26 11:09:29 · 8 answers · asked by koalatcomics 7 in Politics

We were having a party at my house last weekend and we were all drinking (lot's). A friend ask another friend to play this CD, he said it's in your card so he goes out in the car to get the CD, he was sitting in the drivers seat, got the CD just as a cop came up...we ran outside and told him to say NOTHING..well he got a DUI, the thing the cop didn't know was we were video taping the ENTIRE time...we have him going out to the car then getting arrested for DUI, we kept the camera rolling until he came iside while we were holding the car keys then went outside to start the car to show they belonged to the car, we then open the hood and placed our hands on the manifold (to show the car was NEVER running) ALL on tape! We want to bust the cop for being a fat liar...should we go to a lawyer, call a TV station etc..

advice please???

BTW, everyone was 25 years old or older, NO disturbing the peace. I own the house

2007-04-26 11:07:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I have read a book by Dr Rosalie Bertell that states the military will use The Earth as a Weapon in the 21st Century of Wars , { which is what the book is entilted by the way } see link -

http://www.bariumblues.com/earth_as_weapon.htm

So my question - Is this even possible ?

2007-04-26 10:56:36 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government