Other - Politics & Government - September 2006

There are two options for embryos that aren't needed for any other use:

They can be thrown in the trash

or

They can be used for embryonic stem cell research

Which do you support?

2006-09-03 11:38:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-03 11:09:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

You Americans have killed women and children in my country without remorse yet we are suppose to feel sorry for you. You and your president do it to steal our oil and resources and lie?
Why should we have any respect for you????

2006-09-03 10:56:34 · 16 answers · asked by Iambinladen 1

2006-09-03 10:24:14 · 12 answers · asked by super stud 4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jASfALP94Zo&mode=related&search=

2006-09-03 10:10:09 · 23 answers · asked by yars232c 6

They call it the "chocolate" city. Isn't that racist terminology? Don't they select white-washed blacks like Powell and Rice to represent them?

2006-09-03 10:08:48 · 21 answers · asked by Ebee 1

think the U.S. has gone to hell?
what with jobs sent overseas, gay rights, minorities everywhere?

2006-09-03 10:04:22 · 27 answers · asked by A REAL American 3

2006-09-03 10:03:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-03 10:00:27 · 18 answers · asked by This_Is_Me 2

2006-09-03 09:54:08 · 12 answers · asked by footynutguy 4

I am sick of hearing this.
Is USA the only democratic country in the world? If not, why is it more free than the other democracies?

2006-09-03 09:50:12 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I heard today that 65% approve of walmart.

I see them as ruining our market. They have been charged with monopoly violations and all kinds of stuff. They have put small businesses in some towns out of business. I also heard they have been controlling USA trade tariffs with China for years.

R people so shallow that they would shop at the gates of hell just for lower prices?

2006-09-03 09:42:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

My Not for Profit R&D company has technology to solve the UK municipal solid waste problem, but the Labour Party chose to ignore it, instead they opted for plans to install 100 incinerators across the UK. Will the Conservatives continue with the same policy as the Labour Party by succumbing to political lobbing by the incinerator operators who care only for the proft they make, not for the health of the country? Witness the carcinogenic contents and many other chemicals emerging from incinerator stacks. Professor David Connett's web page is an eye opener on the subject of incineration, this is why Ireland decided to opt out of this obnoxious, dangerous process

2006-09-03 09:35:43 · 6 answers · asked by Roy 1

Please state your country.

2006-09-03 09:34:28 · 17 answers · asked by footynutguy 4

2006-09-03 09:25:33 · 11 answers · asked by saruhanu 2

I went to texas depart. human services friday 09/01/2006 to apply for emergency foodstamps was approved they told me my benfits would be on lone star card in 24 hours, it's now Sunday evening my benfits or still not on lone star card I have two kids and no food they didn't give me my case number so I can't find out what's going on the office is closed I believe the'll be closed through the holiday also I don't know what to do.

2006-09-03 09:17:10 · 6 answers · asked by shanika w 1

by the huge increases in the price of gasoline, the hard earned dollars you pay largely goes to the oil companies who in turn pay it over to the..Russians and elsewhere abroad. So with your huge trade deficit are you lot going bankrupt?

2006-09-03 08:59:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-03 08:41:06 · 9 answers · asked by ibid 3

Have a question from my criminal justice class and having a hard time thinking of answers. If you ran the world what legal acts would you criminalize? What already illegal acts would you legalize?

Here are some of the topics from classmates to give you an idea:

Criminalize:
-The sale of diet pills
-The purchasing of fireworks for personal use
- Alcohol all together
- Abortion

Legalize:
- The use of marijuana
- Euthanasia

Anyways, anyone have any suggestions of their own for both topics? What would be your reason for legalizing or criminalizing an act.

2006-09-03 08:36:29 · 14 answers · asked by Heythere1 1

But if it was caught on survillance then how do we see the video quality so clearly in the news/documentaries?

2006-09-03 08:32:57 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the last fifty years, we have grown accustomed to governments whose policies on specific issues may be good or bad, but which essentially institute incremental changes to the status quo. The major exceptions have been Thatcher and Reagan, but even their programs of dismantling systems of social welfare seem, in retrospect, mild compared to what is happening in the United States under George Bush – or more exactly, the ruling junta that tells Bush what to do and say.

It is unquestionably the most radical government in modern American history, one whose ideology and actions have become so pervasive, and are so unquestionably mirrored by the mass media here, that the population seems to have forgotten what “normal” is.

George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d’etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organizations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state.

It is the first administration to openly declare a policy of unilateral aggression, a “Pax Americana” where the presence of allies (whether England or Bulgaria) is agreeable but unimportant; where international treaties no longer apply to the United States; and where – for the first time in history – this country reserves the right to non-defensive, “pre-emptive” strikes against any nation on earth, for whatever reason it declares.

It is the first – since the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II – to enact special laws for a specific ethnic group. Non-citizen young Muslim men are now required to register and subject themselves to interrogation. Many hundreds have been arrested and held without trial or access to legal assistance-- a violation of another pillar of American democracy: habeas corpus. In Guantanamo Bay, where it is said that they are now preparing execution chambers, hundreds of foreign nationals – including a 13-year-old and a man who claims to be 100 – have been kept for almost two years in a limbo that clearly contravenes the Geneva Convention.

Similar to the Reagan era, it is an administration openly devoted to helping the rich and ignoring the poor, one that has turned the budget surplus into a massive deficit through its combination of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy (particularly those who earn more than a million dollars a year) and increases in defense spending. (And, although Republicans always campaign on “less government,” it has created the largest new government bureaucracy in history: the Department of Homeland Security.) The Financial Times of England, hardly a hotbed of leftists, has categorized this economic policy as “the lunatics taking over the asylum.”

But more than Reagan – whose policies tended to benefit the rich in general – most of Bush’s legislation specifically enriches those in his lifelong inner circle from the oil, mining, logging, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. At the middle level of the bureaucracy, where laws may be issued without Congressional approval, hundreds of regulations have been changed to lower standards of pollution or safety in the workplace.

Billions in government contracts have been awarded, without competition, to corporations formerly run by administration officials. In a country where the most significant social changes are enacted by court rulings, rather than by legislation, the Bush administration has been filling every level of the complex judicial system with ultra-right ideologues, especially those who have protected corporations from lawsuits by individuals or environmental groups, and those who are opposed to women's reproductive rights.

Most of all, America doesn’t feel like America any more. The climate of militarism and fear, similar to any totalitarian state, permeates everything. Bush is the first American president in memory to swagger around in a military uniform, though he himself – like all of his most militant advisers – evaded the Vietnam War. (Even Eisenhower, a general and a war hero, never wore his uniform while he was president).

In the airports of provincial cities, there are frequent announcements in that assuring, disembodied voice of science-fiction films: “The Department of Homeland Security advises that the Terror Alert is now . . . Code Orange.” Every few weeks there is an announcement that another terrorist attack is imminent, and citizens are urged to take ludicrous measures, like sealing their windows, against biological and chemical attacks, and to report the suspicious activities of their neighbors.

The Pentagon institutes the “Total Information Awareness” program to collect data on the ordinary activities of ordinary citizens (credit card charges, library book withdrawals, university course enrollments) and when this is perceived as going too far, they change the name to “Terrorist Information Awareness” and continue to do the same things. Millions are listed in airport security computers as potential terrorists, including antiwar demonstrators and pacifists. Critics are warned to “watch what they say” and lists of “traitors” are posted on the internet.

The war in Iraq has been the most extreme manifestation of this new America, and almost a casebook study in totalitarian techniques.

First, an Enemy is created by blatant lies that are endlessly repeated until the population believes it: in this case, that Iraq was linked to the attack on the World Trade Center, and that it possesses vast “weapons of mass destruction” that threaten the world.

Then, a War of Liberation, entirely portrayed by the mass media in terms of our Heroic Troops, with little or no imagery of casualties and devastation, and with morale-inspiring, scripted “news” scenes – such as the toppling of the Saddam statue and the heroic “rescue” of Private Lynch.

Finally, as has happened with Afghanistan, America has received very little news of the chaos that has followed the Great Victory.

It is very difficult to speak of what is happening in America without resorting to the hyperbolic cliches of anti-Americanism that have lost their meaning after so many decades, but that have now finally come true.

Perhaps one can only recite the facts, and I have mentioned only some of them here. This is, quite simply, the most frightening American administration in modern times, one that is appalling both to the left and to traditional conservatives. This junta is unabashed in its imperialist ambitions; it is enacting an Orwellian state of Perpetual War; it is dismantling, or attempting to dismantle, some of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy; it is acting without opposition within the government, and is operating so quickly on so many fronts that it has overwhelmed and exhausted any popular opposition.

Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country’s history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle.

2006-09-03 08:30:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are Liberals just keeping quiet for some reason?

2006-09-03 08:27:04 · 8 answers · asked by Rick 7

There is a movie coming out about the assassination of a president and there is use in it of pictures and segments showing George W. Bush. This is fiction of course, but don't you think there will be a very negative reaction to that? And could it motivate some hot head or a terrorist to do the actual murder?

Personally, I do not like it at all! I have not seen the movie yet because it is coming out soon I think. I do not agree with Mr. Bush policies but certainly would't wish something like that happen to him. What is your opinion on this?

2006-09-03 08:23:28 · 13 answers · asked by montralia 5

2006-09-03 08:12:56 · 18 answers · asked by terri b 1

2006-09-03 08:12:28 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I cannot believe in that. However, is it true that 1/3 of the citizens from USA believe in that?

2006-09-03 08:05:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

The one I can think of is Jane Fonda. She should be locked up in Guantanomo Bay with all of the other terrorists.

2006-09-03 08:04:03 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

And what are the necessary elements of an Islamic state? How do the Hadiths fit into all of this?

2006-09-03 08:03:33 · 8 answers · asked by David L 4

2006-09-03 07:55:32 · 6 answers · asked by spiritualseeker 3

just something that I noticed

2006-09-03 07:52:42 · 11 answers · asked by not coming back 3