Other - Politics & Government - September 2006

Were his comments really a lie ? And what do you think world reaction will be once they do. They allready burned effegys of him. Which I might add is worse then drawing cartoons of Mohamed.Will the Christian faith start protesting world wide now?

2006-09-16 13:57:54 · 19 answers · asked by Shawn S 3

I got these strawberries, but they aren't juicy, fruity or very tasty, kind of tasteless and weird, like they look like strawberries--the perfect look and texture, but they are not quite, actually they are strange.
Now I got these peaches and nectarines and it's the same thing! Except, they look like peaches on the outside, but they don't taste like them, they are tasteless and colorless inside!
What is going on ?
Are these the genetically modified foods, will they spoil the genes of seeds permanently and will the people of the future not know what real fruits taste like?

I remember a girl I knew from Sweden said she couldn't wait to go back home and taste some "real" lettuce. She said all our vegetables are tasteless for some reason. I didn't know what she was talking about , but now I think I do.
What should we do besides harvest our own fruit trees and keep our own farms?

2006-09-16 13:55:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

He said he thought that it was just a terrible pilot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F6kouXg40Q&search=wtc

2006-09-16 13:50:01 · 12 answers · asked by wjscottjones 1

When Clinton was president we had virtually no poverty in the U.S. and the world, the only poor were those who chose to be poor, now Bush is forcing all minorities to the brink of death.

2006-09-16 13:49:24 · 9 answers · asked by April N 3

i mean come on, we all know the terorrists did it, come on guys

2006-09-16 13:43:44 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have seen many photos of the second twin tower about to be hit....but are there ANY photos of the first plane about to hit the world trade center? please, if so, send me the link.

2006-09-16 13:36:03 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What do you think they could do to help eliminate some of the violence of their radical extremists or are they powerless to do so?

2006-09-16 13:35:45 · 14 answers · asked by aili 1

Firstly, our country is not called "England" it's called the United Kingdom. Secondly, I think most Americans would be shocked at how they are viewed by us "English." It is not favourable for the most part. And we have felt this was long before George W Bush became your president.

2006-09-16 13:31:43 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 13:30:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 13:26:12 · 13 answers · asked by julean33 2

Dog the bounty Hunter was arrested in Hawaii, for alleged kidnapping in Mexico,in 6/18/2003.for the capture of Max Factor, who fled to MX.after being convicted of raping three women. I hope that the Government do not return him to Mx. because once you are in their prison, they may as well, put a pistol to your head and pull the trigger. believe me I know, because MX. is run by the drug lords and there is no justice since some of their officials are corrupted and are involved with the drug lords.

2006-09-16 13:22:26 · 11 answers · asked by a.vasquez7413@sbcglobal.net 6

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2006-09-16 13:20:01 · 15 answers · asked by chika4gw 1

Inquiring minds want to know.

Oh yeah, and to keep it political, is it Bush's fault Anna Nicole's kid dropped?

2006-09-16 13:11:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 13:07:14 · 16 answers · asked by wlday2002 2

penalty? Life is life.

2006-09-16 12:55:05 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Marriage is only an empty promise.

Suppose I promise my neighbor that I will clean her car tomorrow if she cleans mine today. She cleans my car today, but I don't clean hers tomorrow simply because I don't feel like it. To make matters worse, she doesn't even care. Of what value was my promise?

We have a similar situation for marriage. Divorce is so easy to come by, and there is no stigma to it. So, of what value was the marriage vow? Zero.

The only reason for marriage today is to get tax breaks. In my opinion, those who break their sacred vows by getting a divorce should be penalized by being required to repay their tax breaks.

No, forget it. This proposal is not on your beloved news media. So just forget about it. It can't be any good, now can it?

If we would try this proposal, divorce lawyers would be forced to try doing something productive--like shining shoes.

Oh, no, forget what I'm saying. You love lawyers. They're great people, aren't they?

2006-09-16 12:51:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is it, as a Catholic, I have to endure bonfire night and the orange parades, and yet when the Pope makes some vague reference to a 14th Century Byzantium King, the world and its oyster seems hellbent on castigating him for his attack on Islam?

Is it that Islam is higher up the pecking order in religions than the others? I don't remember the British Government being too sweet with Northern Irish Catholics during the 70s and 80s, and yet the slightest comment or cartoon against Islam and we're all denouncing the Pope or the Danes, or whoever dares to make any sort of comment about it.

It seems that the Head of the Catholic church is not allowed to make any reference to Islam but in the same breath we have the leader of Iran denouncing the whole of the USA as the Satan of the world, from a Muslim perspective..

What on earth is going on?

2006-09-16 12:50:51 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2

An American Thing from a Freind to You!
15 Sep 2006 17:38:42 -0600 When WW III Started **** 1979

This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalog ue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, disregard the Nuke problems with North Korea and Iran, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.

US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.

AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (when more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed !" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then. It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seize d the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.

America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then-President Carter had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.

America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.

Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.

In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.

Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.

Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continue s her slumber.

The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.

Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.

Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.

Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.

The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA F light 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in1988 , killing 259.

Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.

The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.

The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.

Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.

A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US A ir Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.

They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.

The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.

And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.

In the news lately we hav e seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.

I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year - this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.

2006-09-16 12:39:27 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

Of course they should. Whites typically disingenuously rspond, "I ddn't do it, so I should not be held accountable." This is a funny rationale given that every stinking bloody White who stands to inherit one million smackaroos will never oppose such a reward. It suddenly matters not in the least that the White never earned the one million dollars.

Yes, Blacks should get reparations. There is no denying this simple fact. No, no, no! You idiotic Whites are thinking they should get money. If you have an ounce of sense, you know that a typical poor family would spend $150 not on books, but on some stinking set of Michael Jordan sneakers.

In Chicago, we have an inexcusable dropout rate for minority high school students. We need to teach them that it is not money that is so important as knowledge. I think that we should give a free encyclopedia set to each Black family in this Nation. How is this for a step in the direction of reparations?

2006-09-16 12:30:53 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

let me just make this clear...we live in a DEMOCRACY!
it's american to be able to voice our opinions. especially since the president is so terrible.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/

check out that site to see what laws he has broken.
he has created such a far lower standard of living for us ever since clinton left office. it is very patriotic, whether you realize it or not, to question our president. we must speak out against these rediculous and utterly pointless wars for one thing. i can't wait till 2008 when he leaves office so that i won't have to worry about being lied to and having my civil liberties taken away every couple of months.
be sure to check out the site. i highly encourage it. and if you do and you believe that it is just biased liberal rhetoric, you need to understand that it is in fact government recorded facts about the president being released to the public. same thing goes with the news.it's all facts

2006-09-16 12:10:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Gays can marry because a homosexual dude can marry a lesbian dudette. Two straights can marry if they have opposite sex, but they cannot marry if they have the same sex. Exactly the same goes for homos. Where in the heaven's name is the discrimination?

Homos say that marriage gives them emotional benefits. Let's get serious. Divorces are so easy to come by that only the most naive of children could possibly consider marriage an emotional matter.

It is entirely a financial matter. If same sex marriage is legalized, I would be a fool not to marry some dude; if I dont, I'll be paying out the *** because of the increased taxes that would result from homos who get married.

If we would penalize those who get divorces by forcing them to repay their tax breaks, then maybe gays would have a leg to stand on. But the news media does not tell them that this is a reasonable issue, so it is impossible for anyone to consider it as a reasonable issue.

So forget it!

2006-09-16 11:56:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it because they're intelligent?

2006-09-16 11:50:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 11:14:37 · 18 answers · asked by nillknowalot 1

Just did that to get the attention of the repuglicans, they hate those words. Comment as you wish.

2006-09-16 11:01:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Not that i'm politically on the ball but to me it seems that in countries like the USA and England where in politics it is one or the other, politicians of different parties are forever slagging the others off and blaming the country's shortcoming on the other party. Lots of others there but there is only ever 2. The third one is like there for it to look right but everyone knows they will never make it to rule the country.
So what is stopping countries like the USA and England introducing a system where coalitions are part of everyday life.
To me it seems those politicians involved just ain't man or woman enough to agree to disagree with the other side and haven't got the integrity to admit they can't agree? I realize there are many more countries where coalition politics are just not an option. Maybe if the 'Leaders' lead by example, i.e. publicly agree to disagree and start again then those other countries would eventually follow?

2006-09-16 10:43:56 · 9 answers · asked by Part Time Cynic 7

2006-09-16 10:34:05 · 23 answers · asked by hi_iamhima 1

Here's the facts...
Bush has repeatedly broken the constitution and lied to the American people whenever he saw it fit. he has angered the UN and many new middle eastern nations. he thinks just because he runs the country that he completely and utterly runs everything. this is shown by our civil liberties that he took away with the issuing of the Patriot Act and the phone-tapping. he apparently believes his presidential power is unlimited. he thinks he is protecting us but our borders are still wide open. also, he has decreased our standard of living. and he says God himself told him to invade Iraq. LOL!!!
maybe these articles can enlighten some uninformed people who disagree with me.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/
here is a site that will show how much he lies and gets away with it

www.bushlies.net

2006-09-16 10:21:06 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-16 10:16:52 · 15 answers · asked by mehdi r 1

Since Bush and Company say that "the terrorists hate our freedom", and we haven't been attacked since 9/11/01, then does this mean we are no longer free? Is Al Qaeda pulling it's punches with us after seeing us pass the PATRIOT Act, seeing Bush authorize NSA wiretaps, even seeing Bush effectively suspend habeus corpus with the black prisons that he recently admitted operating in secret?

2006-09-16 09:47:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Israel has brought nothing but headache and heartache, Why should we support them?

2006-09-16 09:35:56 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous