Politics & Government - 7 November 2007

On Jan 26, 2000 then governor Bush made the following statement:

'What I think the President ought to do is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. The President of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price."

Oil has just reached a record high price of $98 a barrel. Now, personally, I don't think Bush was right that Clinton should have been responsible to "jawbone" OPEC, but since he said it, shouldn't he now be doing it? His implication was clearly that Clinton was responsible to lower oil prices since he was president at the time. Shouldn't Bush be held to his OWN standard now that he holds the office? Can we blame him for the curent high oil prices, or is he somehow immune from the same criticism?

2007-11-07 12:37:16 · 8 answers · asked by some_mystery_for_u 2 in Politics

2007-11-07 12:36:26 · 5 answers · asked by American mutt 2 in Military

It would really help if someone who actually is in the navy answered this question, and i appreciate anyone who does answer this question.

2007-11-07 12:36:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Does anyone know where I can find an ISO (International Standards Org) list of Cities and their assigned numbers?
Thanks

2007-11-07 12:35:58 · 2 answers · asked by Glen 1 in International Organizations

I dont think he intended to burn down an area of forest 40 times larger than Manhattan so he shouldent be charged with all of those fines and removed from his home, but he should be punished in a slightly less severe way.

2007-11-07 12:31:08 · 17 answers · asked by Mike D 2 in Law & Ethics

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_us/homeless_veterans

2007-11-07 12:30:45 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

so many cons/republicans as of late are being suspended by Yahoo?

It's highly doubtful that they all turned each other in for poor behavior.

Is it possible for people to debate issues without losing their cool and blatantly turning others in for abuse if they simply don't agree?

One would have to surmise that sooner or later Yahoo will get to the bottom of people falsely accusing other users by turning them in...

Or it could be like it was 6-8 years ago when Yahoo controlled ("claimed") to try to stop floods of porn hitting the chat rooms but all the porn spam came directly from their own privately owned servers...

Or they could continue to deftly take more inappropriate actions all over again.

Hmmm... Funny how this all works. lol

2007-11-07 12:30:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-07 12:26:07 · 13 answers · asked by k 2 in Politics

We can argue about the reason for the Crusades.. I would say it was a European/Christian response to Islamic expansionism but to argue this point is not my point. My question is what would the world look like today if the Crusades had not happened? Would we had had renaissance? What would culture look like? What would government look like. I don't have the answers either obviously but historic events drastically effect the outcome of the future and so what effect do you think the Crusades had on the development of the world and more specifically western civilization?

2007-11-07 12:24:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/07/ncancer107.xml

Obesity is more deadly than all of the illicit drugs -- combined.

Write your representatives now, and demand the criminalization of obesity.

2007-11-07 12:22:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-11-07 12:22:21 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 12:21:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-07 12:20:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anthony S 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 12:20:05 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Guliani's platform primarily is contrary to what Pat Robertson has espoused. Guliani is Pro-Choice and supports gay marriage. This is a blatant admission that Pat Robertson is more political than he is a conservative christian. How say you?

2007-11-07 12:19:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-07 12:19:19 · 11 answers · asked by Lovely 4 in Law & Ethics

I'm not talking about tomorrow, but America has a huge consumption rate. And if they continue to have to pay high prices for middle-eastern oil, might they not take Canada's resources by force? They also need water, which we have plenty of. We are a militarily weak country by comparison, so we would be no obstacle. Again, im talking about the distant future.

2007-11-07 12:18:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

A while back as a joke, I filled out one of those cards you see in stores, The card was to register for a chance to win a trip. I was waiting for my wife and just filled out the card with my dogs name just for laughs. Well, yesterday I received a letter thanking my dog for his campaign contribution. Should I turn this into the authorities, Obviously This is clearly fraud.

2007-11-07 12:17:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-07 12:16:41 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Are the streets of America full of homeless veterans who have medical diseases and mental problems from active duty to this nation? I was told one in four homeless Americans are U.S. honorably discharged veterans! Surely this cannot be true! Such a situation would be a national shame! Perhaps one in 50 or one in a hundred homeless people could be veterans, but one in four would be a monumental U.S. tragedy!!!!

2007-11-07 12:14:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I want to file a restraining order because my neighbor is stalker-ish, rude to me and always stares at me. I do not feel very threatened but I feel like I need to tiptoe around. Is this a good reason or should I let it drop? Also, when you file a restraining order against someone can they find out where you live if you move away?

2007-11-07 12:14:26 · 2 answers · asked by Velvet 4 in Law & Ethics

Besides, doesn't it seem that the armed forces are only fighting so that big business can gain control of the oil supply? Also, Israel seems to have too big an influence on our foreign policy. Why fight and risk homelessness and injury or death when it doesn't benefit the American people?

2007-11-07 12:11:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

I got a ticket for skateboarding across a street when I was 16 in 2003, I had to go to court, they gave me 25 hours of comm. service, and I thought it was dismissed or whatever but...

I went to apply to move into some apartments today, and they ran my backgrounf/criminal check, and they told me I had a mistademenor from the City of Glendale (where it happened) and she was wondering what it was about, I told them it was just Jaywalking, and it was no big deal..

Should I be worried about that being on my record? Is it supposed to be there? I thought if I was a minor stuff like that would not show up?

I have to say this is kinda ebmarassing being 20 and asking this, but I really have no idea!!

2007-11-07 12:10:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2007-11-07 12:09:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

Dont vote for Hillary just because most of the media backs her. Hillary is so two faced that if you do vote for her, you can thank yourself for bringing our country down with her. You Bush haters need to wake up. Dont just go Democrat because of Bush. Look at the candidates and pick the best one, republican or democrat. Dont be stupid.

2007-11-07 12:08:47 · 11 answers · asked by smokindoggy 2 in Elections

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_us/homeless_veterans

2007-11-07 12:07:03 · 15 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

Which do you fear more? One, evil that terrorists have and plan to carry out against the United States,their own or who ever it takes? Or, two, the evil the US leaders of authority have and plan to carry out against Iraq, their own or who ever it takes?

2007-11-07 12:05:06 · 18 answers · asked by yessca333 2 in Politics

2007-11-07 12:04:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

i think we need to bring back general clark and get him to run for president. we need him now.

2007-11-07 12:01:35 · 6 answers · asked by sheilasays 3 in Elections

Conservatives treat our soldiers like expendable 2nd class citizens.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_re_us/homeless_veterans

2007-11-07 12:01:32 · 26 answers · asked by CaesarLives 5 in Politics