Politics & Government - 19 October 2007

.....like the cockroach Peter Stark and the moveon.org crown, and Bert T.

I served honorably from 1971 to 1991 to include one combat tour in Vietnam.

Liberals are worthless pieces of feces in my book!!

2007-10-19 12:45:16 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2 in Politics

2007-10-19 12:42:43 · 3 answers · asked by Jassi 2 in Law Enforcement & Police

I am a Jew and a Conservative and I wonder if this should be allowed. Skim through the article on Foxnews before replying.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,303657,00.html

2007-10-19 12:42:03 · 8 answers · asked by Bing Bong Bao 3 in Politics

Doesn't it matter that he was Governor during the most capital punishment executions in history? Isn't murder, murder? Can man decide when it is OK? Where is that in the bible?

2007-10-19 12:39:54 · 4 answers · asked by Ktcyan 5 in Elections

A family member is on her mother's POA and wants to be removed. Problem is...her mom won't remove her. Is there something she could do to remove herself?

Thanks in advance!

2007-10-19 12:38:33 · 1 answers · asked by Dani 2 in Law & Ethics

give as many details or examples as u want
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2007-10-19 12:37:42 · 17 answers · asked by Mimi 2 in Politics

A bit of history for you. In the 1980s, the social security fund was in serious trouble over cost of living increases, which were tied into the system by law.
The solve the impeding shortfalls, the formula for calculating inflation was changed. Energy cost, food, medical and prescribtion drug cost, and many other staples of everyday life were given less weight in the formula. Items that historically drop from year to year, like TVs, computers and other electronics were given more weight in the formula.
Basically, the things you most most of you money on isn't even considered in inflation these days.
Just this week it was announced that people on social security would get the lowest increase in history, 2.1%. This was lauded as a triumph in flation, yet food, gas, heat will all cost more money.
Increases in the cost of these items are now called the declining dollar value.
Call it what you want. It's still inflation.

2007-10-19 12:34:20 · 9 answers · asked by Overt Operative 6 in Politics

Does anyone need further proof that they stole the land? with US, UN and British support?

And we talk about Freedom and Democracy.

2007-10-19 12:34:15 · 16 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2 in Politics

For those of you who don't know, over the past few days, Rush Limbaugh has had a letter sent to his syndicator on Ebay for sale. The letter was sent to his syndicator, then given to Rush. The letter was about how he should be sanctioned and basically have his show cancelled because of a remark he made about a "phony soldier" that you have probably heard about. A large number of U.S. sennators signed the letter (about 40), but the one who wrote it was Harry Reid. The original copy of the letter was sold to Betty Casey for 2.1 million dollars today, and Rush Limbaugh matched that 2.1 million dollars, making 4.2 million dollars and donated it to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation. So what do you think about this?

2007-10-19 12:30:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

I consider George W. Bush as the Greatest President in American History.

2007-10-19 12:30:23 · 31 answers · asked by Mr. Knowledgeable VI 7 in Politics

2007-10-19 12:29:48 · 5 answers · asked by hayev2 1 in Law & Ethics

I want to leave my property to my children. One is very ill and has no other income but this. Can any crediotrs of mine attatch liens or take this property if i put it in a revocable trust?

2007-10-19 12:29:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

The Truth Behind Bush's Healthcare Veto


Two recent news items remind us of the disconnect between the Democrats' claimed monopoly on compassion and the effects of their policies.
First, consider the emotionally charged public debate over President Bush's veto of a proposed expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Programs.
Standing by congressional Democrats in their push to override the veto, singer Paul Simon said with earnest indignation, "The president's veto of the reauthorization of SCHIP appears to be a heartless act. I'm here today to ask those of you who supported the veto to re-examine your conscience, to find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens, our children."
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, the compassionate Simon is obviously unaware that the matter is not as simple as merely throwing money at the problem. To quote House Minority Leader John Boehner, "There are 500,000 kids in America who are eligible for this program who have not been signed up, yet there are some 700,000 adults who are already on the program."
Simon, unlike the Democrats pulling his puppet strings, must not realize that President Bush supports a $5 billion expansion, not reduction, of the program, or that the Democrats' plan goes far beyond providing a safety net to the needy.
It would allow states to make coverage available to families with incomes greater than $60,000 a year, which would entice people who can well afford private health insurance to opt for state coverage.
Is it good for the children for Democrats to exploit them as props in their quest to force socialized medicine on this nation, one incremental step at a time? Will the inevitably long waiting lines and substantially reduced quality of care be good for the children?
Why can't congressional Democrats just admit they have a soft spot for socialism: that they believe capitalism results in too much economic disparity and that government — the Constitution be damned — should redistribute wealth to suit their ideas of fairness? Never mind that a command-control economy results in a smaller economic pie.
What matters is they care, and by gosh, they're willing to forcibly transfer other people's money to prove it.
As another example, consider the Democrats' obstruction of President Bush's efforts to reform Social Security. Who can forget the Democrats' (Bill Clinton's, Al Gore's) insistence that the future solvency of this entitlement was in such jeopardy that it must be placed off limits in a lock box?
Yet when President Bush attempted to reform this "third rail of politics," Democrats didn't just oppose the eminently sensible "partial privatization" aspect of his plan. They went further, completely reversing themselves and denying the system was in trouble at all.
Our old friend Sen. Harry Reid said, "Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period . . . The president has never seen a crisis he hasn't created . . . [Bush is] exaggerating the solvency."
This time they went to the other end of the chronological spectrum and used seniors as props.
Here again, they pretended to be intervening for the very group of people their demagogic opposition was sure to harm: future Social Security recipients. Demonstrating once more their contempt for the private sector and free markets, they tried to scare seniors into believing President Bush was imperiling Social Security with his very modest proposal to allow participants to invest a small portion of their own funds.
Bush's valiant effort was dead on arrival, and we kicked the ball down the road. This week, we were reminded of the consequences of this reckless procrastination when the first baby boomer of a projected 80 million, Kathleen Casey-Kirschling, applied for her benefits. Despite the Democrats' denials in the name of protecting seniors –- most of whom are not yet seniors –- Social Security outlays are projected to exceed its receipts by 2041.
In the meantime, Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, in the spirit of compassion, is advancing new plans every other week to dole out yet more government money to various groups of voters, er, beneficiaries. These newly promised funds obviously will not be available to pay off maturing Social Security IOUs. But without the slightest self-consciousness, Hillary rails against President Bush for irresponsibly increasing the deficit — though the deficit is, in fact, decreasing. But don't you ever forget how much she cares about the children whose financial future she's mortgaging.
Just believe her and her colleagues that it is evil Republicans who are bankrupting our children with tax cuts that have grown the economy and shrunk the deficit.
Conservatives must be prepared in this campaign season to return to their own free-market principles and expose the liberals' compassion for the ruse it is

2007-10-19 12:26:57 · 13 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

My Dad served in the Navy in the late 60's, and was what was called a frogman. He was also stationed at Andros Island until the early 70's. I am searching for any of his buddies who could tell me a little about him. He is not doing well and can no longer communicate. His name is Robert Olsen, also goes by Bob or Robin. How can I find out about his military life? Can any veterans help me out? I would like to honor my father by writing about his remarkable life. Any suggestions?

2007-10-19 12:25:16 · 8 answers · asked by andipandi 3 in Military

“It should be clear to us that there is no room in Palestine for these two peoples. No `development' will bring us to our goal of independent nationhood in this small country. Without the Arabs, the land will become wide and spacious for us; with the Arabs, the land will remain sparse and cramped.”

These were the words that Joseph Weitz, director of the Zionist Jewish National Fund, wrote in his diary in 1940.

2007-10-19 12:24:21 · 15 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2 in Politics

"Right to Life" doesn't just pertain to stem cells and embrios. It also pertains to those embrios which have been born, including those children of lower and middle class families that can't afford health insurance for them, to preserve their lives and the quality of their lives, and can't afford to

America has just been challenged to support their Right to Life of these unfortunate children, and come up wanting. This is a failure of all Americans:

A failure of Democratic politicians to get the SChip bill passed

A failure of George Bush and Republican politicians to have the same compassion and generosity for needy children that they have shown for the wealthiest among us.

And a failure of all Americans to demand better of their government.

Why do some of us limit our respect for human life to that human life which has not yet left the womb?

This is a sad comment on American compassion, and on Christianity, We should all be ashamed that we've let this happen.

2007-10-19 12:23:58 · 12 answers · asked by Don P 5 in Politics

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center

Many of Clinton’s Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give…
The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

2007-10-19 12:21:52 · 13 answers · asked by charbatch 3 in Politics

"A One World Government and one-unit monetary system, under permanent non-elected hereditary oligarchists who self-select from among their numbers in the form of a feudal system as it was in the Middle Ages. In this One World entity, population will be limited by restrictions on the number of children per family, diseases, wars, famines, until 1 billion people who are useful to the ruling class, in areas which will be strictly and clearly defined, remain as the total world population.

There will be no middle class, only rulers and the servants. All laws will be uniform under a legal system of world courts practicing the same unified code of laws, backed up by a One World Government police force and a One World unified military to enforce laws in all former countries where no national boundaries shall exist. The system will be on the basis of a welfare state; those who are obedient and subservient to the One World Government will be rewarded with the means to live; those who are rebellious will simple be starved to death or be declared outlaws, thus a target for anyone who wishes to kill them. Privately owned firearms or weapons of any kind will be prohibited."

2007-10-19 12:17:54 · 9 answers · asked by Jamil Ahmad G 3 in Other - Politics & Government

2007-10-19 12:17:53 · 17 answers · asked by Zardoz 7 in Politics

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_po/obama_justice_12

2007-10-19 12:10:46 · 13 answers · asked by Iupiter Stator 3 in Politics

Are there any particular requiremnents for operating a process serving firm that delivers subpoenas? I've been thinking about it recently but there has to be a catch because it seems very easy.

2007-10-19 12:08:13 · 2 answers · asked by Mathematically Deficient 1 in Law & Ethics

I don't mean music and talk show radio, I mean radio as is the communcations device used by police, firemen, security companies, and major corporations. There are so many terms and different kinds of frequencies, it's hard to understand. I want to understand how radio works, and how to interpret information on sites like radioreference.com. I am attempting to program a Radio Shack Pro-97 Scanner, and understand for the most part what the manual tells me but I have learned that there is much more to it. Any info or good websites to go to, or books to read would be greatly appreciated.

2007-10-19 12:06:44 · 4 answers · asked by Josh 6 in Law Enforcement & Police

2007-10-19 12:06:28 · 11 answers · asked by lulu 1 in International Organizations

How many yrs. does it allow a president to serve.( i only want how many yrs. not they can be elected for blah blah blah terms with w/e yrs each all i want is ? years)

2007-10-19 12:06:10 · 6 answers · asked by Nicole 2 in Government

2007-10-19 12:03:40 · 16 answers · asked by Jayson P 1 in Politics

Is the idea of co-operating with the French and Germans demeaning to us? Are we stuck hopelessly in the past? What happens if (in terms of our economy) the **** hits the fan?

2007-10-19 12:02:03 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

Honestly, what were they thinking when they wrote the constitution? If you have nothing to hide there's no need for warrants!

4th down, We'll have to work on the 5th amendment next. If you have nothing to hide, why should you care about being forced to testify against yourself?

What other ridiculous rights stand in the way of our freedom?

2007-10-19 12:00:03 · 9 answers · asked by freedom first 5 in Government

Are Liberals paying attention to the major downsides of ethanol?

Prices have soared and will continue to soar as America takes more and more of the crops that it grows and uses it for ethanol. How can poor people in Africa afford to pay twice as much for food as they have in the past?

It takes 1,700 gallons of water to grow the corn needed to produce one gallon of ethanol. Ethanol and draining aquifers far too fast. People will pay the price.

In order to produce grains for both food and ethanol, we'll need to cut down even more forests.

2007-10-19 11:59:37 · 14 answers · asked by How Big is Your Govt Check 3 in Politics

2007-10-19 11:57:51 · 16 answers · asked by misunderstood_teen 1 in Government

http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071019/markets_stocks.html?.v=28

2007-10-19 11:57:05 · 6 answers · asked by St. Tom Cruise 3 in Politics