Politics & Government - 8 September 2007

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lucky_congressman

2007-09-08 03:53:09 · 9 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3 in Politics

Does Truth or Reality play a part in our shaping of a view of the news and politics?

Or are we just caught in the middle of 30 second propoganda sound bytes

2007-09-08 03:53:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

To many people today do not carry valid identification and this hiners law enforcement and cost the tax payers. I believe a mandatory 30 day jail term if any law enforcement official finds someone with no valid identification.

2007-09-08 03:49:21 · 13 answers · asked by aswkingfish 5 in Law & Ethics

Is it religion that drives current global conflicts, terrorism, wars, etc?

Or is it more about the incalcuable disparity of wealth in the world, and about how the richer nations tolerate and allow such terrible poverty among poorer nations?

2007-09-08 03:48:45 · 13 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Politics

2007-09-08 03:44:15 · 8 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2 in Politics

2007-09-08 03:42:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Last night some idiot guest on Hannity and Colmes had this to say:
We are winning the war on terror, but we are going to have to fight it for generations.
(and nobody called him an idiot?)
That doesn't sound like 'winning' to me.

If this idiotic statement were made on some obscure little channel in the backwoods, it would be understandable.
But, Fox News is the top-rated 'news channel' in the US, for God's sake!
Being non-American, could some of you explain how this (Fox News = most popular) happened? The logical conclusion would be that America is a nation where halfwits prevail. (Judging by your President, - elected twice - this is a possibility)

Can America please regain its pride and dignity, and elect Hillary in '08? (Bill being back in the White House has a certain comforting feeling to it)
PLEASE?
The world will breathe a huge collective sigh of relief.

2007-09-08 03:41:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-09-08 03:38:42 · 5 answers · asked by angela f 1 in Law & Ethics

Do liberals fear that Bush will become one of the greatest presidents?

As the world awaits General David Petraeus’s progress report on President Bush’s troop surge, even war critics concede that deploying 30,000 additional GIs has improved Iraq’s security. Largely overlooked, however, is how increased safety has helped U.S. soldiers and contractors rebuild its physical and institutional infrastructure.

The Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) has performed much of the Pentagon’s $11.4 billion in reconstruction. So far, they have concluded 3,014 of 3,387 planned projects. ACE’s website highlights most of the details and comments cited here.

While terrorists blasted holes in highways and water pipes, America has paved 38 new roads. Once 41 total projects are done, Iraqis will ride 265 miles of fresh thoroughfares. Already, 3.1 million Iraqis enjoy 142 million new gallons of purified water daily. Eventually, 300 million such gallons will flow daily to 5.2 million Iraqis, some of whom routinely fill buckets at distant wells.

ACE announced Wednesday that it completed a $266 million facility to bring drinking water to 500,000 Iraqis in southern Dhi Qar province. This should combat water-borne diseases that often kill children up to age 5.

While Islamofascists built roadside bombs, car bombs, and bomb vests, America stayed busy building or rehabilitating 77 primary healthcare centers and 16 hospitals, through August 20. Eventually, GIs will have finished work on 142 primary-care centers and 25 hospitals to serve up to 6.5 million Iraqis.

“In my opinion,” said one Iraqi project engineer who helped ACE construct four hospitals in southern Maysan province, “providing these new and additional medical services will help reduce the infant mortality rate of the area.”

While Muslim radicals deliberately machine-gunned boys and girls on school buses, U.S. troops through August 29 had renovated or built 810 schools, supplying classrooms for 324,000 students. As part of a $1 million effort, ACE last month finished rebuilding a soccer field, cafeteria, plumbing, and air conditioning at the student center of Baghdad’s Mustansiriya University, founded in 1234 A.D.

While fanatic Muslims kidnapped Iraqi women for arranged marriages, American forces have helped female Iraqis thrive in engineering, business, and law enforcement.

ACE encourages Iraqi women to participate in training and networking seminars for entrepreneurs who hope to bid on construction contracts. Among 40 companies at one such event in July, 10 were women-owned.

“Women are a part of this society and together everyone who had an unfair chance during the last regime can now take advantage of their new opportunities within our new country,” said an Iraqi businesswoman named Luma.

Meanwhile, ACE is erecting a three-story facility for female cops in An Najaf province.

“The objective for building the $134,000 female training police station is to help advise, organize, and train Iraqi female officers on basic infantry tactics, from squad to battalion level, to further enhance the Iraqi police stations,” said Army Lt. Colonel Jan Carter.

“As an Iraqi woman, I wish I could see more changes in the Iraqi community,” one female cop remarked. “I joined the Iraqi Army to participate in the noble mission of restoring security in Iraq. I want to see all the Iraqi people happy and living in peace.”

Through July, America had spent $435 million on 404 Iraqi security and justice facilities including 154 border forts, 91 police stations, 32 courthouses, and four major prisons.

Of course, these are more than just Iraqi pork-barrel projects. These concrete baby steps forward after 35 years of kleptocratic Baathist tyranny are drawing Iraqi hearts and minds toward America. U.S. efforts increasingly counteract the frustration Ahmed Raja Al Assan expressed in a Wednesday dispatch by Pentagon public-affairs specialist Sergeant Mike Pryor.

“The terrorists are trying to kill us, kill our families,” Al Assan said. “We want to fight back.”

“A key aspect of U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is to provide security, then basic services as soon as possible, while there is a strategic window in which we can prove our worth to the local public,” says Pete Hegseth, an Army reserve officer who served 11 months in Baghdad and Samarra and now leads Vets for Freedom. “It’s one thing to kick out the bad guys,” Hegseth tells me. “It’s another to prove that we are better.”

President Bush’s troop surge is helping America deliver that proof.

2007-09-08 03:26:17 · 17 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/07/BAUAS0O6Q.DTL

2007-09-08 03:20:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

there are too many islamist terrorists. if we care about him, he will increase his charisma. he is just terrorist man as jihad, hamas, ...etc. do you agree with me?

2007-09-08 03:08:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

This highest level of income equality ever happened under a Republican president.

Has anyone told you that under President George W. Bush we have seen the highest levels of gender-income equality in American history? I didn’t think so.

Last week the U.S. Census Department released its annual survey of poverty, income, and health-insurance coverage. Since the poverty and income have improved, the press has focused almost exclusively on health insurance. That’s a pity, because we’ve heard a drumbeat of outrage since the 1960s about how “a woman only makes 59 percent of a man’s income.” Aside from the fact that this stat fails to compare people of different genders performing the same work, it’s also hopelessly out of date. That number is now 77 percent. This highest level of income equality ever — and it happened under a Republican president.

This is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect after supply-side tax cuts are implemented. The chart above shows how equality rose after the JFK tax cuts, the first giant income leap forward for womankind; how the Reagan tax cuts left women much better off than they had been eight years earlier; and how the Clinton capital-gains tax cut showed the world that he really did know how to treat the ladies.

The great untold story of wage equality goes like this: Supply-side economics is a revolutionary force. It places a premium on brains rather than brawn, and it throws open the doors of the Old Boys’ Club to the most competitive bidders for capital. Glass ceilings are a corporate thing, not an entrepreneurial thing. In an environment of rapid growth, seniority (or even señorita-ity) is no longer relevant. Performance is. When’s there’s one bank in town, you’d better hope you were in the same fraternity as the loan officer. But in a deregulated environment where banks compete, she wins if she’s got the best idea and a good FICO score.

Maybe that’s why they hate us. The Islamofascists, I mean. What would capitalism mean behind “the Burkah Curtain”? The very old boys’ network knows exactly what it would mean.

2007-09-08 03:08:47 · 6 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

Let's face it, if he is indeed still alive, we can anticipate receiving a message from him close to the anniversary of 9/11, every year.

So is he succeeding in ripping us apart even further? Now he appears to be endorsing Democrats. Personally, I think it's a well laid out ploy on his part. They know that there is a lot of inner-fighting between the Liberals and Conservatives and, are using that ammunition against us.

I believe they watch and have access to sites like this, simply to ring some bells and create even more turmoil, don't you?

Are we as Americans going to allow this garbage to continue dividing us, knowing full well that this is his intent and it's working?

2007-09-08 03:01:09 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

At a time when are wages are stagnating and our middle class is being forced to compete with the lowest-cost labor in the world, what does president Bush want to do-aided and abetted by congress? He wants to support illegal immigration. The guest worker program proposed by president Bush was supported by po-amnesty organizations like the National Council of La Raza and LULAC, the league of United Latin American Citizens. While these groups claim to be fighting for the rights of illegal immigrants in the name of humanitarianism, they in fact funded by major corporations that want continued acces to cheap labor. These include, Levi Strauss, Home Depot, Walmart, and many others. Other groups lobbying for amnesty include the Mexican American Legal Political Association, the Ford Foundation ( Which sponsers and funds many of these groups), and the ACLU. So basically Bush doesn't care about the people, Mexican or Americans, its all about big bussiness. He's a puppet.

2007-09-08 02:59:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

isnt that what happens at bars all the time?

and what kind of loser cop must this guy have been that he was catching gays in a bathroom.

2007-09-08 02:52:44 · 14 answers · asked by blktan23 3 in Law Enforcement & Police

my question is more towards theocratic rule (muslim government).

2007-09-08 02:51:13 · 11 answers · asked by yogi 2 in Politics

They spew more political propaganda than cold war Russia.

2007-09-08 02:49:28 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-09-08 02:48:43 · 16 answers · asked by ash32b 2 in Law & Ethics

I am a teacher and have an 8am informal hearing Monday morning for a traffic violation. Does anyone know how long these take. I have scheduled to take a half day off, which mean I would have to be out of there by 10:30. Any ideas??? Thank you!!

2007-09-08 02:44:26 · 13 answers · asked by tragicmelancholy 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-09-08 02:39:36 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I'm guessing that African Americans are kinda sick of Al Sharpton.

2007-09-08 02:39:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Can i withdraw money from the bank At Age 16 with my Learners driving permit ?

2007-09-08 02:36:10 · 6 answers · asked by shedxthisxsorrow 1 in Law & Ethics

Some of the things he said on his video are right out of the Democrat playbook.
I bet he would give Hillary a run for her, er... I mean China's money.

2007-09-08 02:36:00 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

my husband and my neighbor and my really good friend had this discussion. and they beleived he did.. and my husband got irate and kicked them all out.. of course when the next day when he was sober he appollogized..lol what do you think

2007-09-08 02:35:56 · 23 answers · asked by vicki f 2 in Government

2007-09-08 02:35:16 · 5 answers · asked by Brook B 1 in Law & Ethics

Bush leaves Australia after APEC summit Decrease Increase September 08, 2007 11:12pm
US President George W. Bush has left Australia to return to Washington to prepare a crucial White House report on the war in Iraq.

Mr Bush flew out of Sydney Airport after a four-day visit which included a raft of meetings with other leaders before he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation leaders' meeting today.

2007-09-08 02:33:25 · 10 answers · asked by ll_jenny_ll here AND I'M BAC 7 in Politics

For me, its McCain and Biden.

The rest I'm unsure of.

2007-09-08 02:29:01 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

The people vote, the people don't vote; the people get duped while few don't; people sign the mortgage; people do just about everything wrong and I guess get what they deserve...humans, run governments..some nations kill them when out of control,,,,fortunately we have elections to rid ourselves of them but few are informed and many do not bother to vote...the people's apathy is the problem not the governments...too bad many lose sons and daughters because of the governments elected by the people. For the people is not the government we get.

2007-09-08 02:27:16 · 13 answers · asked by bruce b 3 in Elections

2007-09-08 02:18:17 · 7 answers · asked by thestreak 3 in Law & Ethics

Can you do separate wills and then if something were to happen a judge would decide whose wishes to honor? Our children are 1 and almost 3 and we have yet to do our will because we can't agree and an agreement does not seem possible. We may also be getting divorced...how does that affect our will?

2007-09-08 02:16:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics