Other - Politics & Government - September 2007

2007-09-07 06:18:16 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

...are we really that different?

2007-09-07 06:09:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm sick and tired of this ridiculous double standard in the media It didn't stay on Yahoo's main page but 15 minutes!! Many dems have broken the law and it is not being reported. This is a hellva lot worse than some guy having gay sex!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_el_pr/democratic_fundraiser;_ylt=Agn_xSSnAug1.XFpf_ANETRI2ocA

2007-09-07 06:06:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_el_pr/democratic_fundraiser

2007-09-07 05:52:32 · 10 answers · asked by $1,539,684,631,121 Clinton Debt 6

2007-09-07 05:50:29 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

If our government mandates this would you fight? How far would you go to fight it?

(I know.. it’s a bit alarmist/conspiracy theory’ish but, humor the question if you will)

2007-09-07 05:33:32 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4185

What are they really planning for?

Do they know something we don't know?

The police state is almost complete. The market is going up and down, up only from the Federal bail outs!

You better wake up America!

All these things that you sheeple have been calling Liberals crazy for are coming true right before your very eyes!

This lifelong Republican is tired of being ignored by our Government! When are we going to to stand up and be counted!

This is our Nation and they are destroying it from the inside out all with the help of one simple word

Terrorism!

If Osama did plan and execute 9/11 - Bush, his administration and our Government are giving him exactly what he wants! The end of the American way of life, bankrupt our Nation and thin out and break our military!

Wake up!

We are losing our Freedoms for a security that seems more like a Civil Liberty stealing tool, than it is a benefit to our Nation!

2007-09-07 05:23:20 · 10 answers · asked by scottanthonydavis 4

Now retired, Commander Kolstad was a top-rated fighter pilot during his 20-year Navy career. Early in his career, he was accorded the honor of being selected to participate in the Navy's `Top Gun' air combat school, officially known as the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School. The Tom Cruise movie, "Top Gun" reflects the experience of the young Navy pilots at the school. Eleven years later, Commander Kolstad was further honored by being selected to become a `Top Gun' adversary instructor. While in the Navy, he flew F-4 Phantoms, A-4 Skyhawks, and F-14 Tomcats and completed 250 aircraft carrier landings.

Commander Kolstad is especially critical of the account of American Airlines Flight 77 that allegedly crashed into the Pentagon. He says, "At the Pentagon, the pilot of the Boeing 757 quite a feat of flying. I have 6,000 hours of flight time in Boeing 757's and 767's and I could not have flown it the way the flight path was described."

Why don't people listen to the experts?

2007-09-07 05:13:03 · 17 answers · asked by scottanthonydavis 4

2007-09-07 04:58:11 · 6 answers · asked by WiseGirl 4

The news is stocks plunges 221 points on the news of 4000 jobs lost in August. That's less than 1.67%. The Dow is currently over 13,000. And the market hasn't closed for the day, yet. Four years ago it wasn't even at 10,000.

Looks like the media is having a hay-day with the 4000 job loss.

2007-09-07 04:54:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

They have access to classified government secrets, and their secret lifestyle makes them open to blackmail. It seems to me they are putting the nation at risk.

http://gophypocrites.com/2007/09/hyp07036.html

2007-09-07 04:27:58 · 6 answers · asked by 2 5

2007-09-07 04:15:27 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

Right now it appears all our politicans are corrupt and or are on the take or have sexaul disorders or abuses? What is the cure for this problem in the USA? Also why do so many people involved in the Government just kinda disappear?

2007-09-07 04:09:50 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Where is all of this oil we are supposedly stealing from Iraq?

2007-09-07 03:55:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-07 03:38:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not convinced that president Bush is even aware that he knows what the ramifications are before he "Decides" what the entire country wants, nor do I think that he is aware of the real damage he is doing to this country.

He has been ignoring the wishes of the American people to live in peacefull harmony with the rest of the world by continuing to wage his "War on Terror" using a "conspiracy theory" that he was told after the fact and has been encouraged, by "trusted friends", to continue for their own political agenda.

The brainwashed fool was placed into his position by a US Supreme Court 5-4 vote in the 2000 presidential election voter fraud.

His history of substance abuse is well known, and therefore has provided opportunities for "trusted friends" to manipulate him for their own gains.

Perhaps he should be made to take a mental health examination in by qualified independant panel of Pyschiatrists similar to the required annual physical health examinations.

2007-09-07 03:30:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

He's the only candidate she is willing to support.

2007-09-07 02:45:21 · 12 answers · asked by Tom S 7

What do you think of our government and military personnel calling people who are hurt or killed in a bombing "collateral damage?" When did the lives of human beings become "collateral?"

2007-09-07 02:39:52 · 13 answers · asked by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7

http://www.counterpunch.org/christison09062007.html
CIA analysts look into NPT obligations and argue against the logic behind the US' position of Iranian nuclear energy.

2007-09-07 02:31:45 · 7 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3

What was the role of the US in the Guatemala Mayan genocide?
http://mimundo-jamesrodriguez.blogspot.com/2007/08/chixoy-hydro-electrical-dam-and.html

2007-09-07 02:29:27 · 1 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3

Maybe we can solve the concerns of many about the lack of health care in the USA.
Suppose we provide free health care for everyone over 65 because they are too old to work? We could call it something like Medicare.
Then we could provide free health care for really poor people who can't afford health care. We could differentiate between this program and the previous one by calling this by a different name, maybe we could call it something like Medicaid?
Finally, as a stop gap measure, we can make it illegal for a hospital emergency room to turn away indigent patients?
Well, what do you think? Seems to me like we cover all the needy patients and leave the working ones to pay their own way.

2007-09-07 02:04:42 · 12 answers · asked by plezurgui 6

A half century ago, the US was unwilling to allow for the democratic self determination of the Korean peninsula and decided instead to set up a dictatorship in the south. What has it had to gain by imposing the division of the peninsula? Why did the US invade Korea when its people were engaged in a civil war over the terms of unification? What does it have to gain?
S. Korea's Pres. asks Bush: Why not stop the Korean War?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070907/ap_on_re_au_an/bush;_ylt=AgDfAc51ahaiTTMGd4s6ystvaA8F

2007-09-07 01:52:41 · 11 answers · asked by Washington Irving 3

2007-09-07 01:19:21 · 16 answers · asked by Morgan 2

This morning I woke up to an interview on the news with the president of Syria Mr. Al-Assaad I believe his name is.. Anyway he spoke of the border and how he supports the US but feels that the US is ineffective.WAIT Let me tell you why. This man has taken in 1.5 million refugees in his country. These persons consist of widows and orphans. He is now dealing with child labor and prostitution in his country because persons have no means of support. He feels that if the US is not going to make any positive decisions to the economy that they need to leave. Meanwhile their country is filled with refugees and is a desperate situation. Also I would like to make a note that Osama Bin Laden is proposing a new video this week to pry on the weak and misfortunate in this area Do you feel it is time to reconstruct the area before it breeds any more hatred ? Do you feel that we could begin building factories in Iraq near the Syria border to assist in distribution of supplies and begin a labor force?

2007-09-07 01:01:46 · 11 answers · asked by nsprdwmn 3

is he a home wife now makeing cookies and dusting the furniture.

2007-09-07 00:50:06 · 8 answers · asked by IHATETHEEUSKI 5

the american public is fed-up with these coward republicans and their going to lose it in their own right.

2007-09-07 00:26:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Often I'm asked what it's like to live in the most populous Muslim nation- Indonesia and my observations on Islam.

Honestly Islam especially of the Middle Eastern variety is a terrible religion.

When I give my informed view (my father in law being a secular Haji Muslim and politician- my wife and her mum are converts to Catholicism)- people just don't want to hear the truth- that Islam from the Middle East is a violent means of controlling populations and detrimentally deforming societies and cultures.

I have numerous examples- even cited by Indonesian CIA (BIN) documenting how Saudi's attempt (usually via Pakistan or Qatar) to subvert secularism thru propagation of Pesantren (u know them as Madrassa), Mesjid (mosques) and funding of militias such as Jemaah Islamiyah seeking a panASEAN Islamic Caliphate (overthrowing royalty & Buddhist Thailand, Laos, Burma and Cambodia of course).

Why r British people so deaf to a view far more experienced/informed than their trendy PC Guardians?

2007-09-06 23:54:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Afew days ago I wrote I was living on the streets and in a tent. The same day I wrote I found 2 houses! Does this sound like someone that spends all her time on the commuter? Get a job I was told..well I'm disabled and I still am part of this world! How would you feel homeless? Come back at me with your remarks now!

2007-09-06 23:42:47 · 8 answers · asked by Rukeann 2

The Maastricht Treaty, which came into force in 1993, says that any European state which respects the principles of liberty, democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms and the rule of law may apply to join the Union.

The European Union has gone from six members in the 1950s to 27 in 2007. Today, Croatia, Turkey and Macedonia are candidates. There is talk of some day including the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Georgia. Which of these, if any, should be next to join and why?

For more information read the Answers blog: http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qT1KKPQoRKdVT4lowpJCljbFokkuIzI8?p=2713

2007-09-06 23:05:19 · 75 answers · asked by Tomorrow's Europe 1

This isn't an anti-Bush question.
I live in the UK. If a politician tried to interfere with a conviction or sentence passed by a court, let alone quash it - he'd be swept out of office.
Yet successive presidents seem to be able to squash convictions and jail terms for their friends; Clinton did it, Bush is now doing it and II'm sure previous presidents have done it as well.
Why isn't this causing outrage in America?
I though in America everyone was supposed to be nominally equal before the law? How can that veneer survive when your prospects of staying out of jail depend on how good a friend you are of the president of the day?
I am genuinely perplexed by this and I therefore ask this question in an effort to see what the views of ordinary American's are.
Note: Answers which are merely insulting of Bush and/or the UK are not helpful.

2007-09-06 22:20:26 · 1 answers · asked by JZD 7