Government - September 2006

I read recently that Communism and/or Socialism is getting trendy on college campuses. I would like to hear from some of these commies on how communism is the best option for America. The winning answer will make no mention of President Bush or the War since its not relevant to the question. We are talking about changing our form of government and the percieved benefit of adopting a Communist or Socialist form of Government. Fire away.

2006-09-29 03:56:38 · 10 answers · asked by bigdan6974 3

People used to be black listed for being Communists and people were always afraid of Communist take over. What are the elements that make Communism so bad that people used to fear it? What am I missing from the text books? What else might have been happening?

2006-09-29 03:48:09 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

who was the former cincinnati mayor

2006-09-29 03:20:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think it is, I just wanted to hear other people's opinion. PALI PRIDE

2006-09-29 03:12:35 · 7 answers · asked by Paligurl 3

2006-09-29 03:06:19 · 7 answers · asked by AMALTASH D 1

Did you know....

1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

http://en.wikipedia org/wiki/Diebold

2. There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry. http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0916-04.htm

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/private_company.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1647886

5. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel used to be chairman of ES&S. He became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/031004Fitrakis/031004fitrakis.html

6. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, long-connected with the Bush family, was recently caught lying about his ownership of ES&S by the Senate Ethics Committee.
http://www.blackboxvoting.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26

http://www.hillnews.com/news/012903/hagel.aspx

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000896.php

7. Senator Chuck Hagel was on a short list of George W. Bush's vice-presidential candidates.
http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_28/b3689130.htm

http://theindependent.com/stories/052700/new_hagel27.html

8. ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S. and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.
http://www.essvote.com/HTML/about/about.html

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html

9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/041020evotestates/pfindex.html

10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0225-05.htm

http://www.diebold.com/solutions/default.htm

11. Diebold is based in Ohio.
http://www.diebold.com/aboutus/ataglance/default.htm

12. Diebold employed 5 convicted felons as consultants and developers to help write the central compiler computer code that counted 50% of the votes in 30 states.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

http://portland. ndymedia.org/en/2004/10/301469.shtml

13. Jeff Dean was Senior Vice-President of Global Election Systems when it was bought by Diebold. Even though he had been convicted of 23 counts of felony theft in the first degree, Jeff Dean was retained as a consultant by Diebold and was largely responsible for programming the optical scanning software now used in most of the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0312/S00191.htm
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

14. Diebold consultant Jeff Dean was convicted of planting back doors in his software and using a "high degree of sophistication" to evade detection over a period of 2 years.
http://www.chuckherrin.com/HackthevoteFAQ.htm#how

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbv_chapter-8.pdf

15. None of the international election observers were allowed in the polls in Ohio.
http://www.globalexchange.org/update/press/2638.html

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/26/loc_elexoh.html

16. California banned the use of Diebold machines because the security was so bad. Despite Diebold's claims that the audit logs could not be hacked, a chimpanzee was able to do it! (See the movie here: http://www.bbvdocs. org/videos/ baxterVPR. mov.)
http://wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63298,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4874190

17. 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/sunday/main632436.shtml

18. All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65757,00.html

http://www.yuricare port.com/ElectionAftermath04/ThreeResearchStudiesBushIsOut.htm

http://www.rise4new s.net/extravotes .html

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News& file=article& sid=950

http://www.scoop. co.nz/mason/ stories/HL0411/ S00227.htm

19. The governor of the state of Florida, Jeb Bush, is the President's brother.
http://www.tallahas see.com/mld/ tallahassee/ news/local/ 7628725.htm

http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/articles/ A10544-2004Oct29 .html

20. Serious voting anomalies in Florida -- again always favoring Bush -- have been mathematically demonstrated and experts are recommending further investigation.
http://www.yuricare port.com/ ElectionAftermat h04/ThreeResearc hStudiesBushIsOu t.htm

http://www.computer world.com/ governmenttopics /government/ policy/story/ 0,10801,97614, 00.html

http://www.american freepress. net/html/ tens_of_thousand s.html

http://www.commondr eams.org/ headlines04/ 1106-30.htm

http://www.consorti umnews.com/ 2004/110904. html

http://uscountvotes .org/

2006-09-29 03:05:17 · 19 answers · asked by Angel 3

For the IRS to put people in prison for not paying taxes? Some people just don't have the money. Who are they to punish people for being broke? And honestly it's not like failure to pay taxes is the same thing as murder or robbery. It's just bad finance management.

2006-09-29 02:23:05 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are we punishing it's people? How would you, as an American, like to be treated because of something Bush said? Would it be fair for let's say another country refused to buy our exports because our President put his foot in his mouth? Where would that leave our workers?

2006-09-29 01:56:54 · 7 answers · asked by azile_wehttam 3

In my previous post http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?link=best&qid=20060928202923AA9Qh2P&r=w&pa=F5xxBXHpPmKSlmhy00sKlAnRtuICkv_7ik1PrbpNQ0yTvBQVRP9DGQUjcPQiciHqHbR8eiApXWOnmqF.nkCpDw--

several people stated that having a national debt is good for the economy. Can someone please explain how a national debt is good for the economy?

2006-09-29 01:49:07 · 6 answers · asked by Searcher 7

..I am not antiamerican...just want to know a bit of history of what they did..

2006-09-29 01:30:01 · 10 answers · asked by robin 3

..I am not antiamerican...just want to know a bit of history of what they did..

2006-09-29 01:29:47 · 7 answers · asked by robin 3

This is not rhetorical. Why do so many people use a question asking site to make general statements to support their political belief? Furthermore why does there seem to be such a conservative slant on this site when it tends to be opposite everywhere else on the internet. This is a legitimate question and is not politically motivated.

2006-09-29 01:21:26 · 9 answers · asked by xandercycloptic 1

the 311 nuclear air bursts test done in the 50's

2006-09-29 01:12:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

In terms of performance or challenges to overcome or contribution to the country.

2006-09-29 01:12:02 · 7 answers · asked by xandercycloptic 1

" People of the world! Enough is enough!These are our demands!
We want your Water your Gas your Oil Your Mineral Deposits your Society your Culture your Freedom your Mind your Body your Soul your Blood your Past Present and Future. In short we want our fair share and that is ALL OF IT!! Give it freely or resist, we do not care. It is Mind Over Matter. We Don`t Mind And YOU DON`T MATTER!! We will LIE, CHEAT, STEAL And KILL. We will create TRRORISM and use all devious and underhanded methods to FRIGHTEN you and get what we want. WE WILL SUCCEED, YOU WILL SUCCUMB. Thanks for your time, see you soon"

My Vision for the future. Is this what you want?

2006-09-29 01:08:32 · 3 answers · asked by dingdong 4

" People of the world! Enough is enough!These are our demands!
We want your Water your Gas your Oil Your Mineral Deposits your Society your Culture you Freedom your Mind your Body your Soul. In short we want our fair share and that is ALL OF IT!! Give it freely or resist, we do not care. It is Mind Over Matter. We Don`t Mind And YOU DON`T MATTER!! We will LIE, CHEAT, STEAL And KILL. We will create TRRORISM and use all devious and underhanded methods to FRIGHTEN you and get what we want. WE WILL SUCCEED, YOU WILL SUCCUMB. Thanks for your time, see you soon"

My Vision for the future. Is this what you want?

2006-09-29 01:06:56 · 4 answers · asked by dingdong 4

2006-09-29 00:49:59 · 7 answers · asked by njinjasu 1

My husband just got out of prison a month ago and is doing 3 years of parole, he has changed PO's 3 times now the first one came and checked the house and gave us permisson to be together sinse I am a felon also allthough my felony is from 1995. His new PO last week pulled him out put him in a homeless shelter and put a NO CONTACT ORDER between us, Can she do this legally? What rights does he have or does our marrige have? Also he is Canadian and native american we want to go to canada how do we get the federal law to override the state?

2006-09-29 00:46:02 · 7 answers · asked by L B 1

please give me details on what actually happend.including conspiracies

2006-09-29 00:32:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hate doing dishes.

2006-09-29 00:30:16 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-29 00:14:44 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some countries suffer because they are just not ready for democracy... In some cases a benevolent dictator would be better with a democracy to come later

2006-09-29 00:09:04 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4

2006-09-29 00:04:38 · 17 answers · asked by joeq1987 2

Bush for Crimes against humanity IF he IS a Crime Against Humanity?

Calm down Bushistas, I'm not accusing the man, only proposing a theory.

Bring em on!

2006-09-28 23:46:35 · 12 answers · asked by Samuel Crow 3

2006-09-28 23:29:48 · 4 answers · asked by si n 2

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2006-09-28 23:27:54 · 184 answers · asked by Anonymous

I never bought it anyway. Their gas tends to be higher than all the other stations around here. Also I hear 7-11 stopped their supply from Venezuela.

That guy seemed about as bad as Bush. All for the oil. And if I did purchase gas from Citgo, or another supporter, I would have surley stopped. Good job 7-11

2006-09-28 21:50:36 · 13 answers · asked by delgados12 3

please give a communal suggestion

2006-09-28 21:39:42 · 14 answers · asked by mohit m 1

2006-09-28 21:34:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If I remember correctly it is congress that sends us to war. All they had to do was say no. Should they not be held responsible as well? Im not a bush supporter. But I do think that some people give Bush more credit than he deserves. I don't think he is that intelligent to execute conspiracies. Congress also is responsible for how we spend our money and how much is collected in taxes. SHould they not share the blame for the national debt.? what do you think? if not why?

2006-09-28 21:34:51 · 5 answers · asked by Armond B 3