Government - July 2006

I know it had something to do the relations with the Thule Society (whatever that is) and other groups like the Bavarian Illuminati (not much is know about this either). Anyone know what they involve and were these part of the origins of Naziism?

2006-07-27 16:40:56 · 6 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

2006-07-27 16:34:07 · 8 answers · asked by betts1959 1

i understand the idea behind supply and demand. However, a few years ago gas was on average $1.50 a gallon. Now it's over $3.00 per gallon. I'ts funny how it starting going up when houses went up. I heard cnn news say it's mostly because war in iraq. However, the middle east only supplies the u.s with 8% of our oil. Also i don't understand how these people with those big suv's are driving around these days. Car payment, insurance , and gas wow!

2006-07-27 16:28:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

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2006-07-27 16:18:35 · 16 answers · asked by shydreamer2012 4

Limbaugh vs. Reality

Bogus Economics

LIMBAUGH: On California contractor C.C. Myers completing repairs 74 days early on the earthquake-damaged Santa Monica Freeway: "There was one key element that made this happen. One key thing: The governor of California declared the [freeway] a disaster area and by so doing eliminated the need for competitive bids.... Government got the hell out of the way." (TV show, 4/13/94) "They gave this guy [Myers] the job without having to go through the rigmarole...of giving 25 percent of the job to a minority-owned business and 25 percent to a woman." (TV show, 4/15/94)

REALITY: There was competitive bidding: Myers beat four other contractors for the job. Affirmative action rules applied: At least 40 percent of the subcontracts went to minority or women-owned firms. Far from getting out of the way, dozens of state employees were on the job 24 hours a day. Furthermore, the federal government picked up the tab for the whole job (L.A. Times, 5/1/94).

LIMBAUGH: "Banks take the risks in issuing student loans and they are entitled to the profits." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Summer/93)

REALITY: Banks take no risks in issuing student loans, which are federally insured.

LIMBAUGH: "Don't let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America [in the '80s] resulted in a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth." (Ought to Be, p. 70)

REALITY: CBO figures do nothing of the sort. Its numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980, the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more than 20 to one.

LIMBAUGH: Comparing the 1950s with the present: "And I might point out that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the former period." (Told You So, p. 84)

REALITY: Income inequality, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, fell from the 1940s to the late 1960s, and then began rising. Inequality surpassed the 1950 level in 1982 and rose steadily to all-time highs in 1992. (Census Bureau's "Money Income of Households, Families and Persons in the United States")

LIMBAUGH: "Oh, how they relished blaming Reagan administration policies, including the mythical reductions in HUD's budget for public housing, for creating all of the homeless! Budget cuts? There were no budget cuts! The budget figures show that actual construction of public housing increased during the Reagan years." (Ought to Be, p. 242-243)

REALITY: In 1980, 20,900 low-income public housing units were under construction; in 1988, 9,700, a decline of 54 percent ;Statistical Abstracts of the U.S).In terms of 1993 dollars, the HUD budget for the construction of new public housing was slashed from $6.3 billion in 1980 to $683 million in 1988. "We're getting out of the housing business. Period," a Reagan HUD official declared in 1985.

LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.

LIMBAUGH: "There's no such thing as an implied contract." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Every first year law student knows there is.

LIMBAUGH: "Ladies and gentlemen, we now know why there is this institutional opposition to low tax rates in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It's because [low tax rates] are biblical in nature and in root. When you can trace the lowering of tax rates on grain from 90 percent to 20 percent giving seven fat years during the days of Pharaoh in Egypt, why then you are tracing the roots of lower taxes and rising prosperity to religion.... You can trace individual prosperity, economic growth back to the Bible, the Old Testament. Isn't it amazing?" (Radio show, 6/28/93)

REALITY: Amazingly wrong. Genesis 41 is about the wisdom of instituting taxes, not cutting them. After Pharaoh had a dream that prophesied seven fat years to be followed by seven lean years, Joseph advised him to "appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years...and lay up corn under the hands of Pharaoh." In other words, a 20 percent tax on the grain harvest would put aside food for use during the famine. Pharaoh took Joseph's advice, and Egypt avoided hunger during the famine.

Weird Science

LIMBAUGH: "It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema [and other diseases]." (Radio show, 4/29/94)

REALITY: Nicotine's addictiveness has been reported in medical literature since the turn of the century. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's 1988 report on nicotine addiction left no doubts on the subject; "Today the scientific base linking smoking to a number of chronic diseases is overwhelming, with a total of 50,000 studies from dozens of countries," states Encyclopedia Britannica's 1987 "Medical and Health Annual."

LIMBAUGH: "We closed down a whole town--Times Beach, Mo.--over the threat of dioxin. We now know there was no reason to do that. Dioxin at those levels isn't harmful." (Ought to Be, p. 163)

REALITY: "The hypothesis that low exposures [to dioxin] are entirely safe for humans is distinctly less tenable now than before," editorialized the New England Journal of Medicine after publishing a study (1/24/91) on cancer mortality and dioxin. In 1993, after Limbaugh's book was written, a study of residents in Seveso, Italy had increased cancer rates after being exposed to dioxin, The EPA's director of environmental toxicology said this study removed one of the last remaining doubts about dioxin's deadly effects (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane -- or put your children on a plane -- if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks." (Ought to Be, p. 135)

REALITY: A one in five AIDS risk for condom users? Not true, according to Dr. Joseph Kelaghan, who evaluates contraceptives for the National Institutes of Health. "There is substantive evidence that condoms prevent transmission if used consistently and properly," he said. He pointed to a nearly two-year study of couples in which one partner was HIV-positive. Among the 123 couples who used condoms regularly, there wasn't a single new infection (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "Most Canadian physicians who are themselves in need of surgery, for example, scurry across the border to get it done right: the American way. They have found, through experience, that state medical care is too expensive, too slow and inefficient, and, most important, it doesn't provide adequate care for most people." (Told You So, p. 153)

REALITY: "Mr. Limbaugh's claim simply isn't true," says Dr. Hugh Scully, chair of the Canadian Medical Association's Council on Healing and Finance. "The vast majority of Canadians, including physicians, receive their care here in Canada. Those few Canadians who receive health care in the U.S. most often do because they have winter homes in the States--like Arizona and Florida--and have emergent health problems there." Medical care in Canada is hardly "too expensive"; it's provided free and covered by taxes.

2006-07-27 16:14:43 · 2 answers · asked by tough as hell 3

2006-07-27 15:47:07 · 6 answers · asked by Rick H 1

2006-07-27 15:44:52 · 4 answers · asked by   6

Just wondering if we got into big trouble who would be there for us now?

2006-07-27 15:38:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-27 15:24:43 · 25 answers · asked by curtaincaller 2

For some help, look at http://flags.com


So here's my list:

Libya - Wow, it's PURE GREEN. There's not even a freaking logo or some stars. Well, they get an A for originality. There's no other country's flag that's just completely one color.

New Zealand - I don't like the haphazard looking stars. It's kind of dumb. Like if you just swallowed six stars and barfed them up on this flag.

Tuvalu - Total ripoff of the New Zealand flag, only uglier.

State of Maryland - UGH! TACKY, TACKY, TACKY. This flag is completely hideous. Who designed it, Timothy Leary?

2006-07-27 15:01:02 · 10 answers · asked by clorox.bleech 3

In the movie Russia won the war and occupied the U.S. but could not win the occupation kinda like Iraq.

2006-07-27 14:54:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Asking again because I made a spelling error last time.

2006-07-27 14:50:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This question is open to anyone, but I would like to hear especialy from bullmike.
How about it Bullfrog, or is it Bullshitmike, what do you think about your precious Mr President now.

2006-07-27 14:35:45 · 12 answers · asked by acid tongue 7

2006-07-27 14:26:03 · 7 answers · asked by Mrs. Curious 3

2006-07-27 14:19:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not counting that we have paid a disportionate share of its expenses since its inception--besides that. Consider just raw balance of UN existing and UN not existing. On that bifrurcation, what advantage has the USA gained from the UN being in existance. (Please do not drift off subject!)

2006-07-27 14:18:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

None of the Democrats voted against it, but 33 Republicans believe it should be removed.

2006-07-27 14:03:56 · 12 answers · asked by Killer 3

2006-07-27 13:38:45 · 3 answers · asked by Blanca 1

my moms been hitting me sence i was 2 and im 15 and i really need out ..i can't take it any more

2006-07-27 13:38:14 · 1 answers · asked by Taylor 1

Foreign Aid, Humanitarian Aid, Military Aid, etc. We have had the military power to destroy just about any country in the world since 1939, but we don't and haven't since ending world war 2 used these weapons. We haven't aggressivley attacked any country without reason. We just don't want nuclear bombs to fall into the hands of Middle Eastern extremest who blow up their neighbor every time they get a new shipment of Russian tanks. Is that not a fair foreign policy?

2006-07-27 13:29:21 · 7 answers · asked by Johnny B 1

2006-07-27 13:26:21 · 1 answers · asked by Lillie A 1

HE IS GREAT,I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE HIM.

2006-07-27 13:17:53 · 8 answers · asked by The Apostle 2

2006-07-27 13:05:53 · 42 answers · asked by Stephanie P 1

In your words, tell me what you think a republican is and what makes a good or bad republican.

2006-07-27 13:05:45 · 14 answers · asked by Enigma 2

Terrorists cannot be negotiated with. They do not operate that way. They will prey on a country that gives in to them or is weak until the country has no options left but war or surrender. We cannot leave Iraq until the job is done and the fact that we as an American people aren't in agreement on this is only fueling the terrorists drive to attack and cause violence. We as a people need to unite behind and support our leaders of all political parties and squash these cowards once and for all. Until we are united in this effort, we will never defeat evil. These terrorists we are fighting are evil to the extreme. They would not hesitate to kill every last one of us if they were given the chance, don't forget that people. I say we need to fight them abroad instead of at home. 9/11 showed us their resolve in fighting us. We must continue the fight against terrorists wherever they are and right now they are in Iraq. Does anyone agree with me? Feel free to criticize me as well.

2006-07-27 13:02:53 · 7 answers · asked by ? 4

In your words, tell me what you think a democrat is and what makes a good or bad democrat.

2006-07-27 13:01:11 · 9 answers · asked by Enigma 2

Without any mention of god or religion?

2006-07-27 12:42:39 · 10 answers · asked by dmcellphone 2

This relates to constitutional prohibition on naturalized citizens. In my case, I was born abroad to parents who both hold American citizenship. I have had from birth US citizenship. So can I be President someday?

2006-07-27 12:40:00 · 12 answers · asked by berkeleygolden_bear 1

Conservatives are definetely winning. Liberals hold bad arguements, suck at proving points, and do crazy/stupid things that hurt their cause. Conservatives have bad ideas, but at least they have their **** together and actually vote. Most liberals want to change the world by hanging out at starbucks, shopping at thrift stores, and not voting. Conservatives don't like change, becuase change requires you to be on top of current issues and see more of the political spectrum.

2006-07-27 12:31:27 · 4 answers · asked by riddelinpro 1

2006-07-27 12:19:02 · 9 answers · asked by angel l 1