Other - Politics & Government - January 2007

The book that Bush was reading to children in a Florida classroom while the 9/11 attacks were occuring.

2007-01-27 07:07:03 · 8 answers · asked by Feathery 6

I can't figure out why liberals usually insult those who disagree with them rather than participating in a debate. When they do participate, it is usually something that is parroted of of one of the MSNBC talk shows. Why would they try to personally attack someone for having an idea? They are supposed to be the champions of free speech, right? It just seems as though liberal types are always tryign to intimidate others to the point that they won't debate anymore. Why?

2007-01-27 06:58:29 · 7 answers · asked by Kyle B 1

In 2005, over 16,000 people died from alcohol related traffic accidents, in the US alone.

For comparison, 800 US soldiers died in the same time period in Iraq.

What to do about this?

http://www.madd.org/stats/11088

2007-01-27 06:47:11 · 7 answers · asked by Ejsenstejn 2

His aides are telling it like it is in court...
A crafty manipulator of information...

When will he resign?

2007-01-27 06:44:31 · 4 answers · asked by Not so looney afterall 5

Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve


Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 13, 2003
The Guardian

A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.

All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".


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Republicans are demanding to know why the psychologists behind the report, Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition, received $1.2m in public funds for their research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.
The authors also peer into the psyche of President George Bush, who turns out to be a textbook case. The telltale signs are his preference for moral certainty and frequently expressed dislike of nuance.

"This intolerance of ambiguity can lead people to cling to the familiar, to arrive at premature conclusions, and to impose simplistic cliches and stereotypes," the authors argue in the Psychological Bulletin.

One of the psychologists behind the study, Jack Glaser, said the aversion to shades of grey and the need for "closure" could explain the fact that the Bush administration ignored intelligence that contradicted its beliefs about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

The authors, presumably aware of the outrage they were likely to trigger, added a disclaimer that their study "does not mean that conservatism is pathological or that conservative beliefs are necessarily false".

Another author, Arie Kruglanski, of the University of Maryland, said he had received hate mail since the article was published, but he insisted that the study "is not critical of conservatives at all". "The variables we talk about are general human dimensions," he said. "These are the same dimensions that contribute to loyalty and commitment to the group. Liberals might be less intolerant of ambiguity, but they may be less decisive, less committed, less loyal."

But what drives the psychologists? George Will, a Washington Post columnist who has long suffered from ingrained conservatism, noted, tartly: "The professors have ideas; the rest of us have emanations of our psychological needs and neuroses."

2007-01-27 06:34:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

to describe many in this country? Please read:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/../../greg-gutfeld/new-trend-on-the-rise-t_b_39594.html

2007-01-27 06:29:11 · 7 answers · asked by Anji 4

What will it cost?

What does the US pay the family when a soldier is killed?
What do they pay and what does it cost to treat someone that is permanently disabled and unable to work for the rest of their life?
(missing limbs, etc)

thanks

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For the people who say go to CNN.com, where? I don't see it.

For the people who say you cannot put a price on human life: It is my belief that if the US govt gets someone killed or disabled, it is the government's responsibility to pay for it. What does the government pay to the family of a dead soldier and what does it cost for the medical care, food, and housing for a soldier that has lost their limbs or is unable to work for the next 60+ years of their life?

2007-01-27 06:25:29 · 2 answers · asked by brainiac 4

When will right be right and wrong be wrong?
Do I really have to be a part of a system that would require children in other countries or even adults to be enslaved to make me a pair of shoes........when I could pay someone in my own country two or three times what I pay now for the same product?

I owe it to my country and my fellow man .....even if they live in Taiwan or China or wherever!
And that's just one example.
What about Pharmasutical(sp) companies that keep creating new medications that cause more harm than cure? When there are alternatives naturally that the gov. or Merck can't make money on?
Etc. etc. etc............

2007-01-27 06:16:40 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 06:01:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why did all the states enter but mississppi had laws granted but only a couple

2007-01-27 05:51:07 · 1 answers · asked by shlyhndrsn8 1

Will he appear in public with his lesbian daughter Mary, her partner Heather and their newborn baby in public, in loving embrace? Or will he damn them to Hell as being morally bankrupt and against God and Jesus like many of his supporters do?

2007-01-27 05:47:25 · 10 answers · asked by Feathery 6

Why is Democracy for sale?

2007-01-27 05:42:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Anyone else tired of the need for Senate investigative hearings?
They've been around and active through several administrations now! Are there any uncorrupted people left in politics?

2007-01-27 05:39:10 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Many people have been taken off planes, etc. and sent to other countries for intense interrogation (rendition). This intense interrogation includes torture.

After a period of time, they are let go. No charges were laid.

We have the same thing in Gitmo where people have been incarcerated for a period of time without charges and eventually released.

If these incarcarated people are innocent , should they have the right to sue the US government?

2007-01-27 05:32:32 · 15 answers · asked by Dave 2

Why do people vote for Republicans and Democrats when there are so many other parties out there that would probably improve our society?

2007-01-27 05:31:27 · 16 answers · asked by Melissa A 2

I don’t want to sound downbeat, but look at the irony here.

How Labour have impacted so-called “Britishness”:

- They’ve handed unprecedented power to an unelected Brussels
- Tried to ban the national flag, Christmas celebrations etc.
- Sold the majority of British utility companies to foreign conglomerates. E.g. Water companies, electricity suppliers, transport maintenance firms etc.
- Used the British military to benefit American policy
- Abused British democracy, restricted free speech, outlawed protests, ignored British public opinion etc.
- The Prime Minister has lied, sold peerages, invented his own foreign policy etc.
- They permitted unlimited immigration & didn’t monitor it
- Labour left the borders weak & didn’t evict foreign criminals!
- Totally failed to integrate new immigrants, so unbalanced “Britishness” in communities
- Blair’s made Britain a globally despised US poodle

So how can Blair demand that “Britishness” is taught to children after 10 years of wrecking it?

2007-01-27 05:24:31 · 18 answers · asked by Cracker 4

As in if the US has a territory, are the laws of the US's Constitution enforced over there. Why or why not?

2007-01-27 05:17:25 · 1 answers · asked by tdb_28 2

Question: Anybody have a really unique idea for a care package for hubby in Iraq?
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2007-01-27 04:56:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 04:50:33 · 17 answers · asked by osunumberonefan 5

If so, Why? and if not Why Not? I support it but I wonder if I am the only one. Wouldn't it be nice if politicians would quit having taxes as a weapon against Americans?

2007-01-27 04:50:12 · 3 answers · asked by cuban friend 5

2007-01-27 04:15:54 · 7 answers · asked by croato87 5

Banchchans are a great family but Amar Singh represents poor India and it's people. Don't you think that more great can come out of our nation and it's people if he would spend as much time and effort taking care of the people's issue instead of spending all these much time with Banchchans?

2007-01-27 04:12:58 · 4 answers · asked by Rak 2

I know very little about him, and was wondering where he stands on abortion, gay marrage, business, gun control, boarder security, etc. Do you know of a website that I could find this out about other politicians?

2007-01-27 04:01:38 · 5 answers · asked by The Reaganite 3

1947 - During the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
I think Truman may have seen Europe as a threat if the Marshall gives Europe weapons.

2007-01-27 03:50:51 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's time the free riding liberals start defending American Freedom for a change.

2007-01-27 02:58:52 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some background - radical Muslims fear that their religion, way of life, and society is under threat of destruction. What are they afraid of? The "godless and morally corrupt" society represented in general by the West, and represented specifically by the United States. So, which political philosophy in the US has embraced godlessness and moral corruption? Some would say the Liberal left has. Without getting into specifics, generally they are in favor of activities viewed as morally corrupt such as abortion, pornography, sex with anyone and anything, homosexuality, and gay marriage. Liberals are also working to eliminate God and religion from society in general via the attacks on the Pledge of Allegiance, school prayer, Christmas displays and activities, etc.

It seems to me the Liberal left is responsible for the hate we are receiving. Yet they also are the ones who think we should just "understand and embrace" radical muslims and they will stop hating us.

What do *you* think?

2007-01-27 02:20:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Really, Global Warming destroys the earth in 10-15 years?

People really think this?

2007-01-27 02:16:53 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 02:00:06 · 15 answers · asked by Zelda Hunter 7

2007-01-27 01:57:54 · 2 answers · asked by mohammed3king 1

The rate at which the ice caps are melting is a lot quicker than the scientists expected. Its like a snowball effect. If anyone has seen ice melt in the spring (or in the middle of winter now!) they know that once you start seeing pools of water on top of it, it's not long before it's gone. That is exactly whats going on in Antarctica and Greenland now. What kind of a world will we be living in 20, 10 or even 5 years. Think about the climate changes in your area since you where a kid, if you live by the ocean what is 20 ft. more water going to do to your lifestyle.

2007-01-27 01:54:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous