Government - November 2006

How will government downsizing reshape public recreation and park services, libraries, museums, & therapeutic recreation?

2006-11-17 15:38:25 · 3 answers · asked by ttarie 1

2006-11-17 15:05:57 · 4 answers · asked by mecca a 1

This article is intended to be directed toward spinless Europeans and NOT the Brave one's that have, unfortunately, caught a bad name for living on the same land-mass as these morally and intelligently weak individuals. This in particular is NOT directed toward Great Britain (our greatest ally despite the BBC)..

So my question...ah...how do you explain this cowardice and lack of conviction in a just and nobal cause: DEFEATING TERRORISM

I always knew it was, but it took a GERMAN (if you can imagine that..lol) to illustrate this FACT...This is the TRUEST thing you will ever read about the European's method of foreign/world policy.........All I can say is...Thank God for America...and the United Kingdom...(whom is far closer to America than she is Europe)...
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)

A few days ago Henry Broder wrote in Weltam Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.

Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.

Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.

Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.

Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word quidistance,"now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.

Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program. And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form! of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?

I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler, and declaring European "Peace in our time". What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction. It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of t he great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness.

Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.

His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed. In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values! and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.


On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic so devoid of a moral compass.

For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.

While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental cover! age, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".


These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's house.

Appeasement? Europe, thy name is Cowardice.


---God Bless America

2006-11-17 14:02:36 · 14 answers · asked by quarterback 2

Did I hear correct? Did he say that the lesson he learned is that "people want instant success in the world"? that "we will win in Iraq if we don't quit"?

Is that the lesson of the Vietnam war?

And isn't his comment a slap in the face of the Vietnamese people who are doing just fine?

2006-11-17 13:12:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

AND HOMELESS AND JOBLESS?

2006-11-17 13:08:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where can I find a copy of that Executive order.?

2006-11-17 12:52:54 · 1 answers · asked by john 1

2006-11-17 11:48:12 · 17 answers · asked by philip s 1

2006-11-17 10:45:01 · 3 answers · asked by Toni T 1

2006-11-17 10:43:13 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I dont need any partisan bashing answers. Just honesty

2006-11-17 10:41:57 · 11 answers · asked by blast furnace 2

2006-11-17 10:39:59 · 1 answers · asked by Toni T 1

do they get the credit for the Dow having more record breaking days?

2006-11-17 10:30:29 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-17 09:25:05 · 9 answers · asked by 6th Finger 2

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/17/family.planning.ap/index.html

2006-11-17 08:51:23 · 12 answers · asked by Phil S 5

It has become almost a trend,you fight another country and then help it build it up,meanwhile the ordinary soldier is left with the scars and dealing with the aftermath ,and those are the lucky ones

2006-11-17 07:51:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Withdarwing all the troops and sending an atomic bomb to Iraq, just like we did it with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Our troops don't die, and they die! Problem solved!

2006-11-17 06:24:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

jefferson era

2006-11-17 06:07:53 · 1 answers · asked by its m 1

2006-11-17 05:57:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you support him out of patriotism? ofr do you actually think hes doing the right thing despite that everyone knows he's wrong?

2006-11-17 05:14:39 · 21 answers · asked by world's greatest hero 2

2006-11-17 04:28:30 · 16 answers · asked by mikeygonebad2007 1

2006-11-17 04:12:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-11-17 04:07:15 · 15 answers · asked by Pedro M 2

2006-11-17 03:43:20 · 25 answers · asked by jenkster 1

2006-11-17 03:13:31 · 37 answers · asked by teresa6parsons 1

If you don't then do not answer this plz. I do not appreciate inappropriatness. thank you.

2006-11-17 03:02:33 · 24 answers · asked by LJ 1

I want answers from Republicans on this. We know through Rove's talking points and the statistics that federal revenues from income taxes have increased at roughly 14% over the last year. We know that GDP Growth has been about 3-4%, with pretty small inflation. How did we achieve the tax revenue growth of 14% with only 4% economic growth and with decreasing tax brackets? Hint: Has nothing to do with unemployment and the additional jobs in the economy. Those jobs are reflected in the GDP number.

2006-11-17 03:02:23 · 7 answers · asked by kjhenkel 2

this gov. many times neclect the ruling of supreme court ,
criminals in ministry , creamy layers resevation , subsidy in hudgeyatra etc.

2006-11-17 01:43:41 · 5 answers · asked by prithvi 3

I live a nice life, I am single, low income, live with parents (baring in mind I am nealy 30).
I have never asked for benefits or help from the government, eventhough I am on low income. There is no way that I canafford house prices (even a crap area)!
I am thinking of becoming a heroin addict, single Mum with loads of kids by different fathers so I can reap all the benefits, a house and a nice lump sum of money for taking heroin! And never have to work again and live off tax payers money for the rest of my days.

Seriously though, do you have to be like that to get any help from 'genuine' people who need it?

2006-11-17 01:00:23 · 23 answers · asked by Jess H 1

2006-11-17 00:17:00 · 3 answers · asked by dkanand48 1

I remember Watching a live satelite debate in the 80's, between a US audience and a Russian audience. A guy from the Us asked the Russians ' How can your country be free if you only have one political party to vote for ', a Russian guy answered ' We have several Communist/Socialist candidates/parties
to vote for,how many parties in your
democracy do you vote for'?

2006-11-16 23:20:54 · 12 answers · asked by greg c 1