Politics & Government - 16 August 2007

Ok, I dont know if I have asked this in here before but here it goes. I heard how a Muslim woman wanted a divorce and took her husband to court for beating her. The guy got away with it! Now how's come Christians cannot spank their children without having Children Services called? There IS a difference between disapline and abuse, dont get me wrong, but that is why God created the butt, to be spanked. The reason that man got away with that is its O.K in their religion. Well the Bible tells us to spank out children when they do wrong. So why is it ok for Muslims and not Christians?

2007-08-16 10:46:23 · 8 answers · asked by cupidangelgirl2002 2 in Law & Ethics

And here's why !
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

2007-08-16 10:46:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

China is an important economic player; and contrary to what you may have heard, China is not in the pro-American camp. It is a rival power that is currently using trade as a strategic steppingstone. Notion’s of China’s self interest being tied to China-U.S. trade are deceptive. China’s political leaders want their country to become the world’s leading power. They resent American military dominance and seek to undermine America’s global position, using economic, diplomatic as well as military means. China’s trade with America is a tool in a larger strategy that aims at America’s downfall. Failing to realize this, American policy toward China has never been realistic.

2007-08-16 10:45:09 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Lost your landscaping, car washing, house cleaning or fast food job to them? Stinks to be you huh?

2007-08-16 10:41:37 · 25 answers · asked by Water Damage Restorer 3 in Immigration

Do you remember when it was a big deal or atleast UNUSUAL for the US government to lie to us??? everyone pissed themselves when Bill Clinton got a blwojob. But nowadays lost emails...fired attorneys...Iraq's many WMDs...cheaper gas prices...a stronger Al Qaeta...elected justices...criminal neglegence of the WTC building 7...all just business as usual?

2007-08-16 10:40:27 · 13 answers · asked by T-monster 3 in Other - Politics & Government

"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Forign Policy"is not even in bookstoresbut already anxieties have surfaced about the backlash it is stirring with several institution backing away from holding events with the author.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/books/16book.html

2007-08-16 10:37:34 · 4 answers · asked by Ahmad 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-08-16 10:33:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2007-08-16 10:25:06 · 3 answers · asked by rolymo 2 in Law & Ethics

Besides the Iraq war which all the DummyRats (including Hillary) voted for as well. And don't give me this crap about lowering your personal freedom unless you have a concrete example of how your personally were effected. That is if you aren't a criminal or a terrorist of course...

2007-08-16 10:18:54 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am pregnant, and I don't want my babies father to be on the birth certificate.

He is very abusive and i don't want him to have nothing to do with his baby.

He is threatening me with custody.

But if i dont put him on the birth certificate, will he still be able to file for custody if the birth certificate doesn't have any fathers name?

2007-08-16 10:18:09 · 7 answers · asked by nire86 1 in Law & Ethics

president perveez musharref is pro western but you only have to look at demonstrators on the streets of pakistan burning western flags to see pakistani people do not back there president

2007-08-16 10:15:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

I'm just tired of this 2 way system where the republicrats' political bureaucratic bullshit over runs common sense..
I decided to dedicate the next 5 years of my life towards my campaign,even though i know i probably don't have a snow ball's chance in hell,but if i can open up some people's eyes on some new ideas to make this country and the world a better place for everybody to live in,that would be a great feat.

2007-08-16 10:12:35 · 20 answers · asked by David B 1 in Elections

Apparently when i went through MEPS a few weeks ago the fact that my vision coudln't be corrected to 20/20 slipped through the computer system.

I had originally picked to be an AM (aviation Mechanic), but since i have to decide on something new, Ive been looking at some type of logistics possition.

Can anyone tell me if their is a type of job that I could still deal with Aviation and also with Logistics?? Or waht other types of jobs I can do with Logistics. My ASVAB scores were high enough that they told me I could pick almost anything.

thanks

2007-08-16 10:12:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

David S. Broder: Shaking up presidential race
Sacramento Bee, Opinion
David S. Broder
When Fred Thompson makes his long-delayed entrance into the Republican presidential race, he will not tiptoe quietly.
Instead, he will try to shake up the establishment candidates of both parties by depicting a nation in peril from fiscal and security threats -- and prescribing tough cures he says others shrink from offering.
In a two-hour conversation over coffee at a restaurant near his Virginia headquarters, the former senator from Tennessee said that when he joins the battle next month, he "will take some risks that others are not willing to take, in terms of forcing a dialogue on our entitlement situation, our military situation and what it's going to cost" to assure the nation's future.
After spending most of the last few years on TV's "Law and Order," and starting a new family with two children under 4, the 65-year-old lawyer says he finds himself motivated for the first time to seek the White House.
"There's no reason for me to run just to be president," he said.
"I don't desire the emoluments of the office. I don't want to live a lie and clever my way to the nomination or election. But if you can put your ideas out there -- different, more far-reaching ideas -- that is worth doing." Thompson, like many of the others running, has caught a strong whiff of the public disillusionment with both parties in Washington -- and the partisanship that has infected Congress, helping to speed his own departure from the Senate.
But he says he thinks that the public is looking for a different kind of leadership. "I think a president could go to the American people and say, 'Here's what we need to be doing. and I'm willing to go half-way.' Now you have to make them (the opposition) go half-way." The approach Thompson says he's contemplating is one that will step on many sensitive political toes. When he says "we're getting a free ride" fighting a necessary war in Iraq with an undersized military establishment, "wearing out our people and equipment," it sounds like a criticism of the president and the Pentagon.
When he says he would have opposed adding the prescription drug benefit to Medicare, "a $17 trillion add-on to a program that's going bankrupt," he is fighting the bipartisan judgment of the last Congress.
When he says the FBI is perhaps incapable of morphing itself into the smart domestic security agency the country needs, he is attacking another sacred cow.
Thompson repeatedly cites two texts as fueling his concern about the country's future. One is "Government at the Brink," a two-volume report he issued as chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee at the start of the Bush administration in 2001 and handed to the new president's budget director as a checklist of urgent management problems in Washington.
The difficulties outlined in federal procurement, personnel, finances and information technology remain today, Thompson said, and increasingly "threaten national security." His second sourcebook contains the scary reports from Comptroller General David Walker, the head of the Governmental Accountability Office, on the long-term fiscal crisis spawned by the aging of the American population and the runaway costs of health care. Walker labels the current patterns of federal spending "unsustainable," and warns that unless action is taken soon to improve both sides of the government's fiscal ledger -- spending and revenues -- the next generation will suffer.
"Nobody in Congress or on either side in the presidential race wants to deal with it," Thompson said. "So we just rock along and try to maintain the status quo. Republicans say keep the tax cuts; Democrats say keep the entitlements. And we become a less unified country in the process, with a tax code that has become an unholy mess, and all we do is tinker around the edges." Thompson readily concedes that he does not know "where all those chips are going to fall" when he starts challenging members of various interest groups to look beyond their individual agendas and weigh the sacrifices that could assure a better future for their children.
But these issues -- national security and the fiscal crisis of an aging society with runaway heath care costs -- "are worth a portion of a man's life. If I can't get elected talking that way, I probably don't deserve to be elected."
Thompson says "I feel free to do it" his own way, and that freedom may just be enough to shake up the presidential race.
http://www.imwithfred.com/Index.aspx

An hour or so ago, someone had asked a few questions about Fred Thompson and I was stunned to read a few responses stating that Fred had announced that he’s not running. I receive mail from “Friends of Fred” on a regular basis and thought I’d share the latest tidbit.

I think he’ll be a strong candidate who will give everyone a run for their money and would welcome your opinions. Do you think that he’ll beat Rudy in the primary and what are his chances for becoming our next President?

2007-08-16 10:10:16 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I saw a small act of vandalism about an hour ago. I don't want problems. I could be next. The person who did it would have the right to know who reported him?

2007-08-16 10:09:19 · 3 answers · asked by Water Damage Restorer 3 in Law & Ethics

Here's the link to one of the most Liberal News Outlets in the country that states that Valerie Plame was "outed" by Armitage and her husband was a liar and a fraud (just not in so many words).

Will those who believe otherwise be swayed by a media outlet of their own mentallity or be to scared to admit the truth?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460_pf.html

2007-08-16 10:04:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

What do you think?

2007-08-16 10:03:16 · 42 answers · asked by Tropnevead 2 in Politics

2007-08-16 10:01:46 · 2 answers · asked by BLUE S 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-16 10:01:19 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

We spent a fortune in taxpayers money recovering the islands for the sake of a few thousand sheep farmers and, we know from the experience of Australia that transportation works. If it was OK to build several prisons on the beautiful Isle of Wight what would be so wrong about doing the same in the Falklands.
What a great way of dealing with the anti-social elements that we see every day on our screens.

2007-08-16 10:00:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

While there was certainly more Bill Clinton could have done and should have done about Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda and terrorism, the Republicans sure as hell weren't very supportive of him for the anti-terror efforts he did make.

In 1998, in retaliation for the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Clinton launched Operation Infinite Reach, ordering strikes on Al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan and Sudan.

In a televised adress, Clinton said "The target is terror." "There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests, and our values."

What was the Republican response? They accused him of just trying to distract the public from the Lewinsky scandal. Some referenced the movie "Wag the Dog." One of the senators who questioned Clinton's decision was John Ashcroft, who would later become attorney general.

Why did they not support him on this and then later accuse him of not doing enough?

2007-08-16 10:00:11 · 9 answers · asked by ThatOneDude 3 in Military

It's been 30 days since my husband was served and he hasn't signed our divorce papers. I just entered for default today since he hasn't signed and I was told that they send it in for approval and also there's a possibility of it being rejected. On what grounds would they reject it? Any insight on this is appreciated.

Thank you

2007-08-16 09:55:09 · 2 answers · asked by glittereyedg 4 in Law & Ethics

or do they need to be in your house? couldn't you just drag them back into the house?

2007-08-16 09:54:57 · 8 answers · asked by not_omniscient_enough 1 in Law & Ethics

Bush is ready smash Reagan's record for "most well-rested President"... and (as cons are so fond of saying when questioning your patriotism ), during a time of war.... what a guy!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201703.html

2007-08-16 09:52:32 · 10 answers · asked by Fretless 6 in Politics

Unlawful is against the law. Illeagle is a sick bird

2007-08-16 09:50:15 · 6 answers · asked by Scouse 7 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-16 09:48:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

The word is always used with such disdain - is it a spiteful way of saying Conservative? Or is it some branch of Conservativism that has been singled out and defined by Liberals.

2007-08-16 09:47:08 · 9 answers · asked by smellyfoot ™ 7 in Politics

2007-08-16 09:46:47 · 6 answers · asked by Liberal City 6 in Politics

War in Iraq = Good.
Anything Clinton did while in office = Bad.

Do we only have to support the wars waged by Republican Presidents?

2007-08-16 09:46:03 · 10 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6 in Politics

who is your daddy and what does he do?

2007-08-16 09:44:55 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics