Politics & Government - 16 June 2007

Bush warns he'll veto runaway spending

Say what. my god what are they spending in Iraq
This guy is completely and totally insane.

2007-06-16 07:52:05 · 5 answers · asked by trichbopper 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Then why are so many overweight???. And aren't the ones who says the US is starving the Cubans, the same ones who say all Americans are overweight capitalists? Are the 30 percent of overweight Cubans party members? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_he_me/cuba_nutrition;_ylt=AuZa3c5QobIwhxAdYfbzYN4R.3QA

2007-06-16 07:47:47 · 6 answers · asked by dr strangelove 6 in Politics

I'm American. However, I am a citizen as I was born there and lived there until I was five years old, and I am still fluent in Russian. Two of my aunts live there, and they are helping me set up. I'm 18.

Is it true that they hate Americans (I'm only 1/4 Russian, so I'm not "totally Russian")?

2007-06-16 07:47:23 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

If you are wondering thre reason I am being discharged, I really don't know, but I think it is because of "failure to disclose info" at MEPS..I think! not sure....by the way, i am in the Navy DEP program, scheduled to leave for basic on June 26, but i am waiting for a waiver , but hane not heard a thing yet from my recruiters..all they is is " Be patient, we are working on it"..i definitely have the feeling I will be let go at this point, but I would like to try to join the Army or National Guard.

2007-06-16 07:42:05 · 7 answers · asked by Antonio R 2 in Military

Maybe some Thompson supporters will have the guts to answer me this time.

Don't you realize he has worked as a high-paid lobbyist for years, wearing $2,000 suits and driving politicians to expensive dinners at the finest restaurants in his black Cadillac limo.

Do you just look at him wearing a cowboy hat, spinning stories about Sam Houston that Tennesee twang while driving a leased, red pick-up truck and say, "Wow, how authentic is THAT!"

2007-06-16 07:38:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I firmly believe Israel should remain a state and protect their own...

2007-06-16 07:37:40 · 15 answers · asked by kleb317 2 in Other - Politics & Government

style attack while republicans once agin sit on their hands, preventing Democrats from insuring proper security measures, like before??
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

2007-06-16 07:36:23 · 15 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7 in Politics

As long as sensible, intelligent, and fair-minded egalitarians are in the majority, and actively oppose those worthless and sociopathic agendas, they ultimately will be as doomed as their equally-bigoted first cousin, segregation. Meanwhile, the RRR continues to seek to:

1 -- FORCE girls and women to gestate UNwanted pregnancies to term against their will. (Which would be a very real, 9-month-long form of rape!)

2 -- FORCE housing discrimination upon people because they are gay, and upon couples who are unmarried and cohabitating.

3 -- BLOCK legislation that would end workplace discrimination against people over the triviality of their being gay.

4 -- DUMB DOWN America's kids by diluting real science with the pseudo-science of creationism.

5 -- DESTROY the vital separation of church and state w/gov't. endorsement of one religion.

SUGGESTIONS welcome on tactics to derail those agendas, and relegate the RRR Cult to history's dustbin, alongside the segregationists.

2007-06-16 07:35:16 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I find his statement quite ironic, don't you?

2007-06-16 07:34:06 · 15 answers · asked by Fancy That 6 in Politics

2007-06-16 07:33:37 · 6 answers · asked by the dynamic 5 in Law Enforcement & Police

Im thinking something like the Red Dawn movie?
I think not very far, because so many Americans have guns, but just wanted to see what others thought.

2007-06-16 07:27:18 · 12 answers · asked by Recil D 1 in Military

Consider this,

After 9/11, this administration declared a war on Terrorism...

the sum of it's war is a destroyed Iraq, with more terrorists and insurgents than EVER existed or would have existed...

A resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan which is winning the war of hearts and minds in that country,

Palestinians were encouraged to hold Democratic elections in the belief that Hamas would be obliterated, the reality is that Hamas won the elections conclusively and fairly... Sum result was to try and starve the people of Palestine in the hope of Hamas being kicked out.... sum result again, Hamas has now taken over the governance of the country, ousting the more moderate Fatah movement.

Can any sane person come to the conclusion that this is an administration fit for purpose.... Everything it does becomes a calamity.

2007-06-16 07:27:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What Presidential candidate do you believe is best equiped to lead America on those issues?

2007-06-16 07:19:39 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

The Supreme court has actually settled this question awhile back, when Jehovah Witness's went to court for the freedom to opt out of the pledge. (It is a violation of their beliefs) At first the courts ruled that students COULD be required to pledge. Violence broke out against Witness's after this. Later the court ruled in FAVOR of the JW's and ruled that the schools can not REQUIRE students to pledge the flag. What do you think Should the pledge remain optional, should we revert back to making it mandatory or should we do away with the ritual all together ? Should students be able to skip over the "Under God" portion, or should they be REQUIRED to recite every word of the pledge. If you support MANDATORY flag pledging, how should it be enforced ? Would you allow an opt out for religious reasons, or any other reason ? If you support optional pledging, should the schools inform students that the pledge of allegiance is OPTIONAL ?

2007-06-16 07:19:24 · 28 answers · asked by queenthesbian 5 in Civic Participation

Some tool in a jeep almost rammed into the back of me this morning in a 30mph street, he was doin like 60 weaving in and out of a crowded 2 lane road. Im sick of it, Im going to mount fore/aft cameras and start giving police a nice video of these idiots..is it evidence enough to have them busted?!?

2007-06-16 07:19:15 · 7 answers · asked by █ORal-K 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-06-16 07:15:44 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-06-16 07:15:10 · 19 answers · asked by Ringo G. 4 in Politics

Why are they fighting?

I am not trying to be philosophical or anything I am wondering what they are fighting over and who exactly is fighting who.

Whose side is America on,I know that America is involved if not actively doing something.

How is it going who is winning.

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Also something else

In this picture
(It is graphic) with Muhammad al-Durrah the boy who was killed in 2000 are those bullet holes in the wall to the right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AlDurrah3.jpg

2007-06-16 07:13:46 · 15 answers · asked by fred 3 in Politics

I need to know for boyscouts. First answer wins best answer.

2007-06-16 07:09:58 · 4 answers · asked by jake 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-06-16 07:06:23 · 14 answers · asked by annie78 3 in Military

Can you really trust that a politician, who doesn't even know you, has your best interest at heart?

When was the last time you truly cared about a person you didn't even know existed?

2007-06-16 07:05:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Examples?

2007-06-16 07:02:09 · 20 answers · asked by Sangria 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-06-16 07:01:34 · 10 answers · asked by luvisuzu 2 in Military

Can you wear contact lenses in basic?

2007-06-16 06:56:03 · 9 answers · asked by w2006 2 in Military

I want to know what political party believes in keeping taxes low, the Republican Party or the Democratic Party?

2007-06-16 06:54:25 · 17 answers · asked by Brett 3 in Politics

Is a renewal of the "Fairness Doctrine" on the horizon?

2007-06-16 06:54:21 · 18 answers · asked by captain_koyk 5 in Politics

sometimes you can't see whats infront of you, or no what path lies ahead, the only thing you can be certain of is that the choices you make sets the path of the future you choose. A long stand duty of patriotism is not ones services to any politician but the self accomplishment one achieves when he protects his family and the country for what they live. -

2007-06-16 06:50:25 · 4 answers · asked by punkgirl22806 1 in Politics

2007-06-16 06:48:54 · 12 answers · asked by Johnny Y 1 in Elections

Democrats on Friday defended the extra money in the homeland security bill, noting it contains money to hire 3,000 additional border agents, improve explosive detection at airports and provides money to double the amount of cargo screened on passenger aircraft.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070616/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush

2007-06-16 06:42:42 · 7 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7 in Politics

I wasn't getting the answers I wanted on the last question. I understand that meth is bad and the government wanted to make it harder to get a lot of Sudafed or what have you, to help the fight to reduce meth production (you can argue if this would even help, but that is not important to me).

Basically, I know that the common way to make Meth is a combination of pseudoephedrine and red phosphorus (usually from red phosphorus matches) and iodine (ok this one you have to keep, I guess). They were all Class-1 chemicals before the Patriot Act which means that you had to control the production and distrubution of the chemical in the process of making it, and show caution when selling the product in large quantities. So why target Sudafed and not the matches, we have better matches today than the red phosphorus matches, but there are people who borderline need Sudafed for nasal congestion issues.

So I ask you, does anyone know why they targeted pseudoephedrine?

2007-06-16 06:40:11 · 4 answers · asked by cj k 4 in Law & Ethics