Politics & Government - 14 June 2007

In Europe, or the UK at least, there are 2 types of liberal
1) Economic liberalism: which is concerned with deregulation of markets, removal of trade restrictions and as little government control as possible. Your basic free marketeers which is why it confuses me when some Americans call all 'liberals' socialists.

2) Social liberalism, which is primarily concerned with the preservation of civil liberties, social justice (a better deal for the poor etc), and as little government interference on your private affairs (who you can and cannot marry, what your religion is). But it’s the American conservatives who like to describe themselves as the small government side.

It seems that somehow what Americans call liberal is something completely different from what the UK would term liberal. Like the way football is a completely different thing on each side of the Atlantic.

This begs the question, what the hell does the word 'liberal' mean in America?

2007-06-14 14:17:57 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Here is a video clip from KAKE News that I recieved in an email from my teacher who is actually in the video. It is about a group of active duty marines who pull together to help a veteran marine who served in vietnam from Greenburg, KS who lost everything in the tornado which occurred a little while back! It is really touching and I am blessed that we have the military and the armed forces. Thank you for what you are doing and god bless you all!!

Here is the link....Than Click on the video to watch!! Tell me what you think!!

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7931147.html

2007-06-14 14:16:48 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Here is a video clip from KAKE News that I recieved in an email from my teacher who is actually in the video. It is about a group of active duty marines who pull together to help a veteran marine who served in vietnam from Greenburg, KS who lost everything in the tornado which occurred a little while back! It is really touching and I am blessed that we have the military and the armed forces. Thank you for what you are doing and god bless you all!!

Here is the link....Than Click on the video to watch!! Tell me what you think!!

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/7931147.html

2007-06-14 14:15:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

They always talk about Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press when it suits them. When it comes to Fox News or Rush Limbaugh they want to supress it. Why is that? Just look at Drake trying to supress Fox News because he cannot handle the truth.

2007-06-14 14:14:28 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Do you think it's possible to determine someone's political slant by the type of car they drive?

For example, what type of car would a Libratairian drive?

2007-06-14 14:13:41 · 3 answers · asked by GIVRO 3 in Politics

Whenever I prove something negative about Liberals they point out misspelled words. Can there be any more of a stupid and obviouse lack of intelligence. Why cant they just admit they are wrong or dont answer. Also Liberals are supposed to be compassionate. Maybe I'm learning disabled or a evil christian conservative put a hex on me. Liberals should be more understanding.

2007-06-14 14:12:21 · 19 answers · asked by wisemancumth 5 in Politics

why

2007-06-14 14:11:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

does he work for any radicals?

2007-06-14 14:09:27 · 11 answers · asked by nik 2 in Other - Politics & Government

They get all the same rights and freedoms and access to social service programs as the rest of us but they do not have to pay taxes what gives? The same goes for those Guam people and others.

2007-06-14 14:04:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Reid seem to think hes the hog with the big nuts and he is not only going after Petraeus, but other Generals he doesnt approve of as well. Harry Reid, is one of many draft dodgers in our government who hasnt a military clue! If we would allow our military to just kick butt unrestricted we'd of finished the job in my opinion

2007-06-14 14:01:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

running in 08, should I just start drinking heavily?
Again?

2007-06-14 13:59:22 · 11 answers · asked by reagonontherock 2 in Politics

2007-06-14 13:52:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Angelina Jolie's true colors came out Wednesday as she promoted a film about freedom of the press and then tried to censor all her interviews.

Jolie is touting press freedom these days, playing the widow of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in a new movie called "A Mighty Heart."

But Jolie turns out to be a mighty hypocrite when it comes to her own freedom of the press. Her lawyer required all journalists to sign a contract before talking to her, and Jolie instructed publicists at first to ban FOX News from the red carpet of her premiere.

Ironically, Wednesday night's premiere of the excellent Michael Winterbottom-directed film was meant to support an organization called Reporters Without Borders. Jolie, however, did everything she could to clamp down on the press and control it.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,282173,00.html

2007-06-14 13:50:31 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-14 13:49:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

We are trying to secure our Country to keep out, Terrorist and
crack down on Militants. So our answer to this is Legalize every illegal here. Guess that means, Militants get Amnesty too. Correct me , if I miss the Logic in this.

2007-06-14 13:48:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Two more soldiers from my town killed in the last 2 weeks - the true heroes

I am a peace time veteran, just saying thanks to all fellow vets out there, please star this post- and pass it on with prayers for our soldiers and many thanks. We owe you guys everything

2007-06-14 13:45:42 · 17 answers · asked by wavryder ® 6 in Military

is like Rosie O'Donnell being critical of Albert Einstein.....

2007-06-14 13:44:44 · 8 answers · asked by reagonontherock 2 in Politics

No governing body, local, state, or federal, would be allowed to pass a new law or ordinance for one year. What do you think the effect would be?

2007-06-14 13:44:08 · 2 answers · asked by Terri J 7 in Other - Politics & Government

You spent the 80's tryinging to get every guy fired who ever chose to asked out a female coworker (and you call yourselves 'prochoice'). Then you spent most of the 90's defending Clinton for sexually harassment. You want to ban cigarettes after spending the 60's smoking pot. You say Bush wont admit to mistakes but you've never admitted you were wrong when you said (in the 60s and 70s) there would be mass starvation by 2000 or the Iraq oil fires would take years to put out then they were put out in less than 3 months.
You call Conservative Hypocrits which demonstates you dont understand the meaning of the word. Making a mistake is not hypocrisy unless you criticise others for doing the same thing. Correction is not critism. If a parent who smokes teaches a child not to smoke, thats not hypocrasy. Its called compassion. "dont do what I've done before you get addicted".

2007-06-14 13:42:51 · 11 answers · asked by wisemancumth 5 in Politics

The FBI just caught Lou Pearlman. He's the guy behind the 90s boy bands.
Over the last few years he's been scammed over 1000 investors using the Ponzi scheme. to the tune of $315 million. He's been on the run for the last few months and has ignored numerous subpeonas. My friends and I were just curious. About how mnay years in jail and how large of a fine, asdie from the $315 million is he looking at?
Also the report said that he was charge with 1 count of bank fraud. But he scammed over 1000 people and several banks. Why only 1 charge?

2007-06-14 13:40:18 · 4 answers · asked by christigmc 5 in Law & Ethics

Do you think that a person should be allowed to own a gun if the person is liscensed and the gun is registered ? I think they should.

2007-06-14 13:38:49 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Some 45% of all Republicans report being very happy, compared with just 30% of Democrats and 29% of independents. This finding has also been around a long time; Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the General Social Survey began taking its measurements in 1972. Pew surveys since 1991 also show a partisan gap on happiness; the current 16 percentage point gap is among the largest in Pew surveys, rivaled only by a 17 point gap in February 2003.
Could it be that Republicans are so much happier now because their party controls all the levers of federal power? Not likely. Since 1972, the GOP happiness edge over Democrats has ebbed and flowed in a pattern that appears unrelated to which party is in political power.
For example, Republicans had up to a 10 and 11 percentage point happiness edge over Democrats in various years of both the Carter and Clinton presidencies, and as small as a three and five percentage point edge in various years of the Reagan and first Bush presidencies. Also, we should explain here a bit about how our survey questionnaire was constructed. The question about happiness was posed at the very beginning of the interview, while the question about political affiliation was posed at the back end, along with questions about demographic traits. So respondents were not cued to consider their happiness through the frame of partisan politics. This question is about happiness; it is not a question about happiness with partisan outcomes.
Of course, there's a more obvious explanation for the Republicans' happiness edge. Republicans tend to have more money than Democrats, and -- as we've already discovered -- people who have more money tend to be happier.
But even this explanation only goes so far. If one controls for household income, Republicans still hold a significant edge: that is, poor Republicans are happier than poor Democrats; middle-income Republicans are happier than middle-income Democrats, and rich Republicans are happier than rich Democrats.
Might ideology be the key? It's true that conservatives, who are more likely to be Republican, are happier than liberals, who are more likely to be Democrats. But even controlling for this ideological factor, a significant partisan gap remains. Conservative Republicans are happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate/liberal Republicans are happier than liberal Democrats. Hmmm, what other factors might be at play? Well, there's always...
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet

2007-06-14 13:34:34 · 12 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

I've got to admit he's smart. Too bad he's on the wrong side and is basically evil. Sometimes I agree with him on affirmative action, and I think most of his audience is disgruntled white guys. We white guys have had it tough since the contraction of the economy in the early seventies. Combine that with an explosion in the work force and affirmative action and it's tough for us caucasian males to get our foot in the door. Mr. Sewage wanted an academic career to go with his PhD from Berkeley, but he couldn't do it because he says in those days and probably still if you are not a woman or a person of color, you can forget it. There is some truth in that. Not enough truth to make one a fascist in my opinion, but like I said, I can relate, sort of.

2007-06-14 13:34:03 · 2 answers · asked by edcyhn 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-06-14 13:32:15 · 1 answers · asked by allihandro20 1 in Politics

Some 45% of all Republicans report being very happy, compared with just 30% of Democrats and 29% of independents. This finding has also been around a long time; Republicans have been happier than Democrats every year since the General Social Survey began taking its measurements in 1972. Pew surveys since 1991 also show a partisan gap on happiness; the current 16 percentage point gap is among the largest in Pew surveys, rivaled only by a 17 point gap in February 2003.
Could it be that Republicans are so much happier now because their party controls all the levers of federal power? Not likely. Since 1972, the GOP happiness edge over Democrats has ebbed and flowed in a pattern that appears unrelated to which party is in political power.
For example, Republicans had up to a 10 and 11 percentage point happiness edge over Democrats in various years of both the Carter and Clinton presidencies, and as small as a three and five percentage point edge in various years of the Reagan and first Bush presidencies. Also, we should explain here a bit about how our survey questionnaire was constructed. The question about happiness was posed at the very beginning of the interview, while the question about political affiliation was posed at the back end, along with questions about demographic traits. So respondents were not cued to consider their happiness through the frame of partisan politics. This question is about happiness; it is not a question about happiness with partisan outcomes.
Of course, there's a more obvious explanation for the Republicans' happiness edge. Republicans tend to have more money than Democrats, and -- as we've already discovered -- people who have more money tend to be happier.
But even this explanation only goes so far. If one controls for household income, Republicans still hold a significant edge: that is, poor Republicans are happier than poor Democrats; middle-income Republicans are happier than middle-income Democrats, and rich Republicans are happier than rich Democrats.
Might ideology be the key? It's true that conservatives, who are more likely to be Republican, are happier than liberals, who are more likely to be Democrats. But even controlling for this ideological factor, a significant partisan gap remains. Conservative Republicans are happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate/liberal Republicans are happier than liberal Democrats. Hmmm, what other factors might be at play? Well, there's always...
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/301/are-we-happy-yet

2007-06-14 13:31:08 · 10 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

Would he rather attack Generals and undermine the military?

2007-06-14 13:30:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I know that they are a backwater country , with little if anything of value , besides maybe some oil , would conquering there country be worth it?

2007-06-14 13:29:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

(Excluding "gary glitter" stuuff of cource!!!)

2007-06-14 13:29:02 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3 in Law & Ethics

I want to know can you buy out yourself or someone from the Military is that possible or is it just a myth. Can anyone or an expert answer this question and is there a link that I can read upon.

2007-06-14 13:28:45 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

2007-06-14 13:23:44 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government