Politics & Government - 1 May 2007

Who 'll be the best president for US in all respects,but not a dictator.

2007-05-01 12:49:32 · 12 answers · asked by sam s 1 in Elections

The number of terrorist attacks worldwide rose by 20,000 (40 percent) last year, "mostly due to greater violence in Iraq. ... Iraq alone accounts for nearly two-thirds of all terrorism-related deaths last year."

2007-05-01 12:48:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.baxterbulletinonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage

2007-05-01 12:45:10 · 9 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

Subject: Let's say I break into your house.
A lady wrote the best letter in the Editorials in ages!
It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV.
Her point:
Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the
Country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing
The issue of illegal immigration.
Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own
borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and,
once here, to stay indefinitely.
Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.
Let's say I break into your house. Let's say that when you discover
me in your house, you insist that I leave. But I say, "I've made all
the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.
I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working
and honest (except for when I broke into your house).
According to the protesters you are:
1 Required to let me stay in your house.
2 Required to add me to your family's insurance plan.
3 Required to Educate my kids.
4 Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family.
My husband will do all of your yard work because he is also
Hard-working and honest, except for that breaking in part.
If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who
Will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.
It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do,
And I'm just trying to better myself. I'm a hard-working and honest,
Person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house.
And what a deal it is for me! I live in your house, contributing only a
fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it
without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and
bigoted behavior.
Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you to learn MY LANGUAGE so you can
communicate with me.
Why can't people see how ridiculous this is?
Only in AMERICA .

2007-05-01 12:43:40 · 8 answers · asked by rlkeebler 3 in Immigration

2007-05-01 12:42:58 · 20 answers · asked by Matthew P 4 in Politics

If there is any constitutional mechanism to make this happen, wouldn't it be great if it actually did?

2007-05-01 12:42:37 · 10 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Politics

is playing politics worth the lives of our troops. the general says he needs the money now. they put together a bill with billions of dollars for peanut subsidies?


anyone that believed :
a) that democrats arent the party of tax and spend; or

b) that they dont want to lose the war and leave the troops without bullets because they hate their own country..

werent paying attention for the last 100 years.




and thats a memo

2007-05-01 12:41:19 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-05-01 12:39:53 · 22 answers · asked by edward m 4 in Politics

It seems that the main argument that illegal immigrants use is that it is unethical to split parents and children, why dont they just take them with them, if there are any parents who would be willing to abandon their children because of that, I would have to say that thay are bad parents and that they should not blame the government for their own mistakes.

2007-05-01 12:39:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Can one of the liberal extremists out there clarify the reasoning as to why MILLIONS of dollars of unrelated pork sandwiched in the bill makes soldiers combat ready and insures their safety. Remember, thats an EXACT QUOTE from Pelosi and echoed by Harry. And how, specifically is peanut storage the will of the american people when it relates to Iraq. Obviously the Pelosi/reid regime desparately needs a reality check as NONE of this was the will of the american people who are pro or con for the war. NO one directed them to install tax and spend campaigns and certaily the razor thin mandate of 06 was not about pulling an arbitrary date out of the air for cut and run. Oh and by the way, while your at it, if we can sift through all your trumpeting about since billary and john edwards have flipped flopped out of their authorization vote, could you state how cut and run WONT drive the middle east into chaos. the post and the la times have already gone on record in this forum against it.

2007-05-01 12:39:24 · 4 answers · asked by koalatcomics 7 in Military

I would offer that other countries are just sick and tired of us. I foresee the same type of actions being instituted by other countries..
one by one
little by little.

May 2, 2007
JOSE, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela stripped the world's biggest oil companies of operational control over massive Orinoco Belt crude projects on Tuesday, a vital move in President Hugo Chavez's nationalization drive.
US . companies ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Britain's BP, Norway's Statoil and France's Total agreed to obey a decree to transfer operational control on Tuesday, although the

OPEC nation complained ConocoPhillips was somewhat resistantPresident Chavez has ordered us to take full control over the sovereignty of our oil, and we are doing that today," Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez told state television at the oil installations shortly after midnight after a hero's welcome from the workers.

2007-05-01 12:38:34 · 7 answers · asked by rare2findd 6 in Politics

Do they spend your money fairly or spend to much money
on administration cost for their self

2007-05-01 12:37:15 · 9 answers · asked by technocase 3 in Law & Ethics

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Kathleen in Canton, Michigan, welcome to the EIB. Are you 12 years old, am I reading that right?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Hi, Kathleen, well, it's great to have you with us today.

CALLER: I have a question -- it's great to speak with you.

RUSH: Thank you.

CALLER: My question is, when Clinton was in power, there were multiple terrorist attacks on the United States. Why didn't he try and stop them?

RUSH: Well, they did in their own way. They tried to use the legal system, but they were never really serious about doing anything about preventing future attacks. They never responded militarily to attacks, until late in the term, second term, during the impeachment scandals. I'll tell you what, I have to ask you to hold on, I misread the clock when I took your call and I thought I had a minute more than I do. Can you hold on for a couple of minutes?

CALLER: Yes.

RUSH: Good, thank you, because I'll be happy to try to explain this to you. Twelve years old from Canton, Michigan. You're not in school today?

CALLER: Home-schooled.

RUSH: Oh. Okay. Home-schooled. Explains a lot.

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All right, back to Kathleen, 12-year-old Kathleen in Canton, Michigan. Yours is actually a very good question. Why didn't the Clintons do anything about terrorism when there were attacks on this country during both terms of the Clinton presidency. But before I answer that, I'm curious, where did this question come from in your mind? What have you been doing lately, studying, that's spawned this question today?

CALLER: Well, I've been doing a lot in my history book and I was reading about Clinton and how there were some terrorist attacks but they didn't say exactly what they did about them.

RUSH: Well, the administration did a couple of things. The first World Trade Center attack in 1993, there was not much done on that. However, you may have read about, I don't know, sheik Omar Abdel Rahman. He's an Egyptian sheik, his nickname is the blind sheik and he and some cronies, one of whom I think was involved in the '93 blast, evolved a plan to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge and some tunnels and so forth. He and one of his buddies, Ramzi Yousef, were prosecuted by the US attorney's office in Manhattan and guilty verdicts were secured, and both are in jail for life. So the Clinton administration, Kathleen, looked at terrorism as a criminal enterprise, and they dealt with it legally. But they did a couple of things in the process that created real, real havoc. In the process of using the legal system, you have to impanel grand juries to hear evidence, and the evidence that was presented, much of it was classified intelligence data.

Now, grand jury testimony is secret. It cannot be revealed. It cannot be published. It cannot be legally released to anybody, including other intelligence agencies. So, as an example, if the FBI is called in to the grand jury to give evidence against a potential terrorist, then the CIA and nobody else could know about it, and this was referred to as "the wall" that was built by the Clinton administration and associate attorney general by the name of Jamie Gorelick that actually prevented intelligence agencies in the government from learning what each other knew, since terrorism was being prosecuted legally rather than fought on battlefields on the home grounds of terrorists. Now, why was this? Well, who knows. It probably was just the fact that the Clinton people are Democrats and did not have a serious world view of terrorism, much like Democrats have today.

John Edwards in his debate, the press conference performance last week, (paraphrased) "There's really no war on terror. Terrorism is just something that happens, it's out there. We gotta be prepared to deal with it, but to go to war against them is silly because there isn't one and we ought not convince the American people." They're trying to create an atmosphere people call a 9/10 atmosphere where we can pretend that life in America is just as it was before 9/11. Well, in doing that we had the World Trade Center attacks. We had Americans killed all over the world in Al-Qaeda bombings. One of the popular theories to explain why the Clinton administration didn't do anything about it, other than legally, which very few people saw. But if you go to war or if you respond to terrorist attacks militarily, everybody is going to see that, and the Clinton administration, not big fans of the military. The military to them was a social playground, where they could try the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, women in combat, gays in combat, and this sort of thing.
The theory is that the Clinton administration just didn't want to risk the high approval they had, and going to war would certainly do that, they thought. So those are the two primary reasons. The Clinton administration had a totally different agenda, and that was to produce a legacy of eight years of bliss, nonconfrontation, and harmony. The Soviet Union had just gone kaput, we had the peace dividend and they didn't want to tackle any difficult issue that might threaten that legacy or that 65% approval rating that they had. The only time Clinton actually did military strikes involving Al-Qaeda was in '98 when he launched some missiles into empty camps. It was '98 and '99, Kathleen, that he blew up an office building on a Saturday night in Baghdad. I think the janitor was killed. But nothing serious, after rattling some cages. In fact, after 9/11 happened, there were some former Clinton administration officials lamenting that if it was going to happen, why couldn't it have happened during Clinton's presidency so that he could have had something around which to forge greatness? Those are the best theories to answer your question. This call was obviously a home school assignment, wasn't it?

CALLER: No.

RUSH: No? Well, it served a purpose of being a home school assignment nevertheless. Does that help you?

CALLER: Yes, it does.

RUSH: Any other questions? Because I'm a font of answers.

CALLER: Not really, but you're coming to Michigan on Thursday, and I will be there.

RUSH: You will? You're going to be in the audience?

CALLER: Yes, I will.

RUSH: Well, terrific. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad to know this, too. And I'm glad that you're going to be there. You coming with your mom and dad?

CALLER: No, just my mom.

RUSH: Just your mom. Okay. Well, I hope you have a good time. I'll go out of my way to make sure that you do.

CALLER: Thank you.

RUSH: Okay. That's Kathleen from -- yeah, by the way, programming note, I will not be here Thursday, folks. I gotta fly to Detroit Thursday morning. I've got a Rush to Excellence performance that night for our affiliate there, WJR, 2500 people. They sold it out in half an hour, I think they told me. I'm meeting with some of our sponsors that are headquartered in Detroit during the day, but we'll be back here on Friday.
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2007-05-01 12:37:05 · 17 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

2007-05-01 12:36:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

l see, too much hate and friction going on becouse the illegals protesting... just relax and lets celebrate Cinco de Mayo... or arent u celebrating this year because the marchs and all the immigrants? just wondering.
most of my friends are white and they dont seem to care about all this stuff. but hey, they might not say anything for respect...
l think u white people have the right to protect ur country[nothing wrong with that. and we [ mexicans] have the right to look for a better life for our kids.
lm a USARMY soldier in Iraq. God bless us all and be happy this Cinco de Mayo.

2007-05-01 12:35:03 · 16 answers · asked by mendoza4057 2 in Immigration

Al Zarqawi's successor has been killed in Iraq -- by Sunnis.

So much for the great "civil war" so frequently invoked by the left. They made it seem as if the Iraqis were the bombers and that Al Qaeda had not shipped unwelcome foreigners to Iraq.

2007-05-01 12:26:16 · 11 answers · asked by Whootziedude 4 in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_chavez

2007-05-01 12:25:25 · 13 answers · asked by quarterback 2 in Politics

I keep seeing these rants from cons but I hardly ever seem to see a lib rant? I cannot WAIT to see these responses!

2007-05-01 12:24:47 · 19 answers · asked by Oprah's Minge 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Don’t blame me if I raised my children to hate you
watch the clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz_EP7WeFz8&mode=related&search=

2007-05-01 12:22:53 · 1 answers · asked by falooja 1 in Other - Politics & Government

since liberals are so desperate for us to get beat in Iraqi, why dont they used this helpful hint?

2007-05-01 12:19:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

http://www.caglecartoons.com/viewimage.asp?ID={21FCE3A4-84C3-46B3-9B33-B6E76FBBB91F}

2007-05-01 12:18:51 · 9 answers · asked by Flyers 1 in Other - Politics & Government

Can a supprter of the Iraq War get the nomination of his or her party?

And can they win the White House?

Or will this election be about the war and nothing more?

2007-05-01 12:17:09 · 10 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Elections

2007-05-01 12:16:35 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

liberals talk a good fight, but why are they afraid to protect the nation against terrorism

2007-05-01 12:13:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Most presidents end up giving lectures and spending time in talk shows,will Jorge speaking tour wind up in his native land for Univision and Telemundo

2007-05-01 12:10:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I read somewhere that it might just be. And people complain about immigrants crossing "illegally".

2007-05-01 12:10:23 · 7 answers · asked by MOJADO 2 in Immigration

Also, I saw no illegals in front of Home Depot, looking for jobs. There was ot a bunch of unruley illegal children running amuck in Walmart.

2007-05-01 12:10:16 · 10 answers · asked by ProLife Liberal 5 in Immigration

I don't mean in 2009, I mean right now, what if republicans weren't so stupid and elected him instead of Bush, what would our country be like?

2007-05-01 12:08:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

How many Cons tripped over their floppy bow ties today?

2007-05-01 12:06:26 · 2 answers · asked by flushles 3 in Politics

2007-05-01 12:06:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics