Other - Politics & Government - June 2007

At one time the USA and democracy were taken as two synonymous entities. Can any one take comfort in the ever deteriorating situation.

2007-06-28 06:06:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system and the legalization of gay marriage. They have continued a long-term drift away from the Republican Party.

What it comes down to is Republicans act against young people's best interest. Tuition increases well above the rate of inflation and stagnating minimum wage means larger loans to pay for college. By any other name, that is a higher tax that what I ever had to consider.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/washington/27poll.html?em&ex=1183176000&en=08bb067788cbf27f&ei=5087%0A

2007-06-28 06:03:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've said this many times, but I'll say it again:

The junior Senator from Illinois who had virtually no name recognition 6 months ago outside of Illinois is going to be your next President.

He started his first tv campaign in Iowa this week. That means he has generated all this momentum via word of mouth up to this point.

He's nearly even with Hillary who had the most name recognition humanly possible after being First Lady and a Senator from NY state.

The Ann Coulter's of the world are going to need to find more wrong with him than his middle name if they want to keep him out of the White House.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_el_pr/obama_fundraising

2007-06-28 05:35:33 · 21 answers · asked by Josh 4

Why do they want to waste time & tax payer money on their ridiculous witch hunting expedition?? Bush can fire attorneys anytime he wants.

2007-06-28 05:26:52 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

at what point are we as Americans beholden to our responsibility to forceably remove these anti-American usurpers from office?

seems that if it were any country other than America, that these actions were taking place, we would have demanded NATO step in with peacekeeping forces, or we would have sent a covert CIA squad in to take out the kakistocracy with a few well placed rounds...

but when it's our own - we are mired in fear of our own government and seem to concede that they're immune to laws - just because they say so

2007-06-28 05:18:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 05:15:28 · 27 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

"Can't we just all get along"....

2007-06-28 05:11:25 · 6 answers · asked by REDHOPE 2

2007-06-28 05:06:47 · 18 answers · asked by Ronnie 2

Can any of us survive Tony Blair?

2007-06-28 04:50:32 · 7 answers · asked by trish 5

2007-06-28 04:25:08 · 1 answers · asked by trer 3

.........wouldn't it be fair to summise that they are all Mormon? I mean, if our presidents can change their name and then run for office and become president under a new name, why can't they pretend for purposes of getting ahead that they are something besides what they really are, Mormon? Senator Hatch of Utah is openly Mormon, and this kind of Nixonian stonewalling as the press calls it is typical politics at the Utah state capital. Most Utahns don't have access to alot of what really goes on in Utah politics, and only the most 'important' Mormons do. The Mormons under Joe Smith published a 'manifesto' threatening to take over this country back in the 1850's and 1860's. They still believe they are 'the new zion' and that 'jesus will come to them first and then the temple mount in israel' and that they are 'God's word and power on Earth in this age and none have authority over them.' I can already guess how many mormons are gonna flip over this post. But the truth hurts, doesn't it?

2007-06-28 04:23:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 04:19:17 · 8 answers · asked by Ruth 7

Could it be that they didn't mind it when Bush asserted Executive Privilege at that time when the documents in question were from the Clinton administration?

Just a thought.

2007-06-28 04:09:34 · 4 answers · asked by thegubmint 7

Can anyone shed some light into why they would assert executive priviledge to prevent documents related to the firing of the federal prosecutors from being furnished?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_subpoenas

I'm not getting it. Thanks!

2007-06-28 04:08:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Yes or no? Why or why not?

2007-06-28 03:58:57 · 4 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7

Seriously, what IS the difference, OTHER than the vocal Cubano community in the US? Vietnam is every bit as communist as Cuba, is it not?

2007-06-28 03:31:58 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6

Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, doctors and law enforcement to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful.
This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect.
There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.)
That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition, dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry,
the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.

This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.

If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.

The petroleum industry would also be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough bio fuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells).

So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at

2007-06-28 03:22:11 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070628/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_subpoenas

If there is nothing to hide,...then why try to hide it ?

2007-06-28 03:15:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-28 03:15:26 · 3 answers · asked by Tim 6

$2.6 trillion !

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/white_house_spin_masks_the_rea.html

2007-06-28 02:53:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Noone should be poor or have to worry about the government saying something is out of budget. They can just make more money.

2007-06-28 02:40:09 · 10 answers · asked by My two cents 4

2007-06-28 02:32:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Did you get to vote yourself a raise today ?

2007-06-28 01:35:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear so many of them say that theyll give up and stay home for the General Election next year unless a "true" conservative steps up.

2007-06-28 01:30:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced radical new plans to intervene in remote Australian Aboriginal communities. This week he has sent Australian Federal Police and the Australian Army into these remote communities to enforce his new ideas.These ideas include the ban of alcohol and the withholding Social Security payments to Aboriginal families. The Aboriginal peoples are reminded of the Stolen Generation era.This has resulted in a mass evacuation by Aboriginal families who are taking their children and running scared into the bush with nothing but the clothing on their backs...........................

2007-06-28 01:22:16 · 5 answers · asked by cybersurfa 2

Does anyone know if I would be able to get any kind of financial help from the government for a new boiler.

Mine has just broken and have been told I need a new one. I am with a housing association who I pay 75% rent to but they won't help because they say if you own 25% its your responsibility. I cant afford a new one as i've been quoted £550. I also have a 5 month old baby and I need hot water for her more than anything.

PS. My husband works full time (not a good wage) and I have a full time job but I'm currently on maternity leave.

2007-06-28 01:12:46 · 10 answers · asked by Lisa 2

I'd particularly like to hear from top contributors.....

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/76565/ILA_Destroys_Bedouin_Homes_to_Make_Way_For_Jewish_Town

2007-06-28 00:36:28 · 13 answers · asked by hunsareretards 3

should who ever gives them these weapons, be left alone to benefit from the attrocities Israel is carring out.?

2007-06-27 23:53:57 · 17 answers · asked by kau la poo 2

That we have lived in a time when the two best ever politicians Bill Clinton and Tony Blair were in power.

Tony Blair got a standing ovation at the house of commons , when he said his final goodbye to the house, which is unprecedented .

We have a powerful replacement in Gordon Brown, The Americans have had to suffer with George Bush, what a contrast between bush and Clinton division 5 and premiership.

Clinton and Bush had a social conscience and worked for the good of everyone rich and poor, Bush doesn't understand that principle. I hope Hillary gets elected, she will be an amazing leader for America. Intelligence, integrity, quality's Bush certainly does not have.

2007-06-27 23:06:04 · 8 answers · asked by phil 3

2007-06-27 22:25:17 · 12 answers · asked by Fia 5