Politics & Government - 15 November 2007

Osama is still alive and our borders and ports aren't secure. It's just a matter of time people.

Plus look at the government's horribly slow response to hurricane Katrina.

Does that not just show you how unprepared our government is for another terrorist attack of that magnitude?

2007-11-15 08:48:16 · 8 answers · asked by MadLibs 6 in Politics

2007-11-15 08:46:11 · 8 answers · asked by charles_butler56 1 in Embassies & Consulates

What if nothing has been proved and the court has not take a decision. Can the company denied employment?

2007-11-15 08:46:01 · 9 answers · asked by The Most Beautiful Men 1 in Law & Ethics

Success of surge drops Iraq from front pages

FORGET the briefings from generals, the intelligence evaluations and the Pentagon status reports. There is a handy indicator for whether the war in Iraq is going well — its relative absence from the front pages.
During the past month, the country’s top newspapers have splashed Iraq stories on Page
A-1, but most of them have had to do with the scandal concerning the security contractor Blackwater and the impending (but yet to materialize) Turkish invasion of the Kurdish north. Reports on major trends in the war tend to be relegated to inside pages because — from the blows dealt to al-Qaida, to the rise of Sunni security volunteers, to Muqtada al-Sadrs cease-fire — they have been largely positive.
In Israel, there’s a law that bans reporting on sensitive national-security operations; you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S. has a similar ban on any encouraging news from the hottest battlefront in the war on terror. The United States might be the only country in world history that reverse-propagandizes itself, magnifying its setbacks and ignoring its successes so that nothing can disturb what Sen. Joe Lieberman calls the narrative of defeat.
In an incisive account of the surge in the new issue of The Weekly Standard, military analyst Kimberly Kagan writes: The total number of enemy attacks has fallen for four consecutive months, and has now reached levels last seen before the February 2006 Samarra mosque bombing. IED explosions have plummeted
to late-2004 levels. Iraqi civilian casualties, which peaked at 3,000 in the month of December 2006, are now below 1,000 for the second straight month. The number of coalition soldiers killed in action has fallen for five straight months and is now at the lowest level since February 2004.
Seemingly every day brings a new encouraging number. The latest is that rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have fallen to their lowest level in nearly two years. The lefts initial reaction to the surges success in reducing violence in Iraq was to declare Gen. David Petraeus a liar. Now, a new tack has become necessary — finding creative ways to deny credit to the surge. Democrat Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin says insurgents are simply running out of people to kill.
So between January and today, everyone who could die in violence in Iraq perished? This is childish. It is true that the ethnic cleansing in Baghdad neighborhoods, once it is complete, creates a perverse kind of stability. But the reduction in violence has happened all around the country, in all-Sunni areas as well as in areas in parts of Baghdad that are still ethnic fault lines.
As Kagan writes, U.S. forces interposed themselves between warring factions in Baghdad, and on the outskirts of the city, attacked al-Qaida strongholds. This is why American casualties went up earlier this year and now — with al-Qaida on the run — are back down. As security has taken hold, the Sunnis have felt comfortable partnering with American forces to battle al-Qaida.
Defeating the terror group has been a consensus goal of all sides in the Iraq debate. Now that some U.S. commanders consider al-Qaida in Iraq all but routed, Democrats should be delighted. Instead they avert their eyes from the signal accomplishment of the U.S. military during the past year. Troops have never been so notionally supported by everyone, while having their accomplishments so ignored.
The political reconciliation that is so important to Iraq’s long-term stability has yet to take place, but the first, necessary step is to get Iraqis to stop resorting to violence to resolve their differences. And whatever comes of Iraq, eliminating al-Qaida in Iraq is a desirable goal in its own right.
Bush repeatedly has said that there will be no ceremony on the deck of a battleship to mark victory over al-Qaida; when it comes to any eventual victory over al-Qaida in Iraq, not only will there be no ceremony, well be lucky to get a headline.

2007-11-15 08:42:48 · 9 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

What is rudy doing besides running for president?

2007-11-15 08:38:57 · 16 answers · asked by Bob S 1 in Elections

When it was done right, the spine would snap, killing the person instantly. Why do people think hanging was so much worse than, say, the gas chamber or electrocution? Hanging was probably quicker and MORE humane than those other methods.

2007-11-15 08:38:09 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

My boss keeps the temperature at 58-62 degrees all the time in the winter. I am soooo cold, i get sick and feel terrible all winter long. We live in Ohio and when it gets cold, it a DAMP cold. I would walk out, but im to afraid that i won't have a job. Any amount i have goes immediatly to bills. What can i do to get the heat turned up (and yes i have tried talking to him about it) Is it legal to have it so cold in a retail store??

p.s i wear long underwear and layers too.

2007-11-15 08:37:50 · 4 answers · asked by Nina 1 in Law & Ethics

My daughter and her X boyfriend have a baby 4 months old. Anyone know anything about her getting primary cousty?

2007-11-15 08:36:08 · 4 answers · asked by Christina T 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-15 08:35:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-15 08:34:27 · 8 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6 in Politics

where did sexy mama go ? were her opinions too rich and she got booted? if her account is suspended will she be able to return? she will be missed!

2007-11-15 08:33:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

American way of life?

2007-11-15 08:33:26 · 28 answers · asked by realitycheck 3 in Politics

I've read several posts regarding foodstamps and people's views on them. It sounds to me that these people have never been through trials or hard times.
My husband and I have strings of bad luck, I lost my job which I quit due to ethical reasons. I found out I'm now pregnant. My husband's boss won't give him the raise which he was told he would get. Our income is cut short now, I am not a lazy, uneducated person who wants to live off the government. I have worked my butt off from high school on up and am currently working on finishing up my bachelors degree and in the mean time looking for a job. It's enough to have to go through the depression period of losing your job and feeling like a loser. Bad things happen to good people and some of you need to just realize that. My husband and I have posted and done some small computer business jobs, we've sold most of our valuable posessions. WHY? to make ends meet and yet we still need assistance. Some of you people are so judgmental.

2007-11-15 08:32:52 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-11-15 08:32:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I hate to play the race card, but clearly this is the case with OJ.

2007-11-15 08:30:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

Five points for best answer.

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The "best man" at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade."

2007-11-15 08:30:46 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006poll_politics.php

2007-11-15 08:29:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-11-15 08:28:57 · 8 answers · asked by Run Lola Run 4 in Politics

I guess he'll have to decide...

2007-11-15 08:28:01 · 8 answers · asked by Madmax 2 in Politics

2007-11-15 08:27:33 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

When it is not ?LONG BEACH Students walked out of an immigration debate at California State University, Long Beach, on Tuesday to protest Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist and what they said was "hate mongering" aimed at dividing their campus.

Gilchrist, of Aliso Viejo, was invited by the Conservative Student Union to debate immigrant rights advocate Enrique Morones, founder of the San Diego-based Border Angels. The event galvanized student leaders and faculty to form a coalition in support of human rights and in opposition to the Minuteman Project, which they called a "racist" and "extremist" movement.

About 300 students and faculty gathered on the green outside the auditorium where the debate was held, carrying signs reading "Racists go home!" and wearing fliers taped to their shirts with the names of the countries their parents and grandparents came from.

When the debate began, the auditorium was packed with students. But the room quickly emptied when Morones challenged students to walk out in protest during his opening remarks, leaving Gilchrist – who wore a bulletproof vest over his business suit – on the stage alone.

"We cannot tolerate this kind of behavior. What they're doing is a hate movement," Morones said, while objecting to the format of the debate, which had a friend of Gilchrist's as moderator.

Gilchrist gave his remarks and spent the next two hours sharing his views with the three dozen students who remained in the auditorium, peppering him with questions about his views. Gilchrist highlighted the importance of freedom of speech and assembly for the country and anyone who is here, regardless of their immigration status. He underscored the need for English as a common language and the intensity of the country's debate over immigration.http://www.ocregister.com/news/gilchrist-debate-students-1922090-campus-immigration

2007-11-15 08:27:27 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2007-11-15 08:25:55 · 9 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5 in Politics

I do.

2007-11-15 08:25:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Son needs a direction.

2007-11-15 08:24:53 · 11 answers · asked by moandy001 2 in Military

Example: As in a traffic stop.

2007-11-15 08:24:41 · 1 answers · asked by been there- done that 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-15 08:24:15 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Oh yeah and Clinton lost a stealth fighter.

2007-11-15 08:23:14 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

CNN has registered democrats 420,000, and registered republicans 411,000....
That is a big change, I am starting to see a trend.

2007-11-15 08:21:10 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

My fiancee recently had to move in with his mother in another state. IT was her idea not his (we are underage). She does not have any legal custody over him. His father does and he lives here. He wants to come back but if she says no....does he HAVE to stay with her? Can she legally keep him there?

2007-11-15 08:19:35 · 4 answers · asked by RAW DIVA™ 5 in Law & Ethics

2007-11-15 08:19:24 · 14 answers · asked by Madmax 2 in Politics