Politics - 26 June 2006

how is the economy so good when prices are going up and saleries aren't being adjusted to inflation. while ceo's continue to get tax breaks and corporations expand while workers benefits are cut and jobs are outsourced.

2006-06-26 07:20:27 · 16 answers · asked by david c 4

Let's say he banned all sperm banks because he thinks they were immoral (and too much competition for him).

2006-06-26 07:18:10 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not trying to sound callous to the deaths in this war, but people, usually very young and/or uneducated people, think that a war with 2,500 deaths in two years is significant. Let me go back to my WWII perspective ...

When Germany invaded Russia at Stalingrad and Moscow, Russia lost more than 24 million people, including more than 1 million soldiers. The United States lost more than 400,000 soldiers with more than 100,000 still missing in action.

Yes, the U.S. has suffered 2,500 killed in action in this war but that's over more than two years. The U.S. lost more than 4,000 soldiers IN ONE DAY during the invasion of Normandy. In fact, during WWII the U.S. lost more than 2,000 soldiers per week EVERY WEEK for more than four years.

Sure, the U.S. has spent a couple of hundred billion dollars, which is A LOT of money. But WWII cost the U.S., adjusted for inflation, almost $12 TRILLION dollars.

Some perspective ... please.

2006-06-26 07:11:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-26 07:08:35 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The Geneva Convention only afford protection to designated and uniformed troops belonging to the military or and organized militia of a recognized member nation. Some nitwit caught planting an IED on the side of a road doesn't fall under this description and so are able to be taken as prisoners of war without protection. That's it.

Why do people in the U.S. try to pretend that Islamic Terrorists should be given the same rights as recognized members of the military of a nation? Is this really so hard to understand?

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

2006-06-26 07:01:57 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

seriously this makes no sense to me. ive read who knows how many answers to why peopl hate bush and they all include the fact that he didnt get elected by the people.

the constitution clearly states that the president gets elected by the ELECTORAL COLLEGE not popular vote.

please, bush bashers and liberals explain this one to me.

2006-06-26 06:57:43 · 8 answers · asked by jasonx14 2

Women’s wages average just 75 cents to every dollar a man makes.

Both women and men deserve more, not less, leisure time--particularly today, when U.S. workers on average are working a month longer per year than they did 30 years ago.

Creating public catering establishments, nurseries, kindergartens are just a few basic steps which can really emancipate women, really lessen and abolish their inequality with men as regards their role in social production and public life.

Why are so many people afraid to ask for such meger improvements on our daily lives?

2006-06-26 06:55:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-26 06:55:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I understand that most Americans today are victims of the public education system, which refuses to teach kids to think of current situations in terms of historical perspective, but that's a poor excuse. You should always try to educate yourself, and that doesn't mean CNN, Fox News, or Air America.

Most people, but liberals in particular, try to pretend that this war is different, that's it's a unique situation that the U.S. is practically going it alone. As though every other war was everybody versus one bad guy.

To put it in perspective, when the U.S. entered WWII only England, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and Russia were on our side. That's it. The entire rest of Europe and large parts of Asia were already under the control of the Axis. Who were our allies in Vietnam and Korea, or the Revolutionary War?

Can people put this in the proper persepctive for once and leave current politics out of it?

2006-06-26 06:54:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-26 06:50:18 · 23 answers · asked by david c 4

read no question just read
this homeless guy asked me for money,
the other day, I was about to give it to him, and I thought: he's just
gonna use it on drugs or alcohol. And then I thought: That's what I'm
gonna use it on! Why am I judging this poor bastard? People love to
judge homeless guys. Like, you give him the money and he's just
gonna waste it, he's gonna waste the money. Well he lives in a box!
What do you want him to do with it, save it up and buy a wall unit?
Take a little run to the store for a throw rug and a cd rack? He's
homeless! I walked behind this guy the other day, a homeless guy
asked him for money, he looks right at the homeless guy, he goes:
"Why don't you go out and get a job, you bum?"

People always say that to homeless guys, get a job. Like it's always
that easy. This homeless guy was wearing his underwear outside his
pants. I'm guessing his resume ain't all up to date. I'm predicting
some problems during the interview pr

2006-06-26 06:45:13 · 13 answers · asked by CHuntae T 1

do you belive that the conflicts of the future are ethnical conflicts between nations. not wars for oil, even for water (as Reygan stated it in 80-s), but clashes of different views on world, life, society. do you belive in this?

2006-06-26 06:42:47 · 7 answers · asked by leha_mp3 1

& we have engaged in the torture of "prisoners" which many of whom have been found innocent, then why are we appalled when our soldiers are tortured?

2006-06-26 06:39:00 · 16 answers · asked by Blue 2

Did you know, that 1 out of 4 Americans has appeared on tv?
Did you know, 61% of all hits on the internet are on sex-sites?
Every day 21 newborn babies will be given to the wrong parents
The average person swallows 8 spiders in a year
Cannabis is the most widely abused drug in the world
The average age of first intercourse is 15.3 years old
41% of all people take people with curly hair less seriously
20% of all females have had at least 1 homosexuall experience
Did you know, that there is no such thing as an anti-wrinkle-creme?
22% of the time, a pizza will arrive faster then an ambulance in Great Britian
96% of all women have at one time in their life faked an orgasm
3 people die every year, testing if a 9 volt battery works on their tongue
The 'Guiness Book Of Records' holds the record
for being the most stolen book in the public libraries
In 1995 a japanese trawler sank because a
Russian cargo plane dropped a living cow from 30,000 feet
Only one book has been printed in more copies than the bible:
the IKEA-catalogue

2006-06-26 06:23:58 · 14 answers · asked by CHuntae T 1

Are they jealous because they can't get any from a woman or is that the only thing they got on Clinton?

2006-06-26 06:23:39 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

i have spent 2 days trying to find a politician i could support for president in both parties and have found no one not connected to some scandal politicaly of finacialy .recomend some one besides the front runners i have found all of them unsatisfactory democrats and Republicans

2006-06-26 06:21:01 · 7 answers · asked by playtoofast 6

I love this site for us to have a chance to share our ideas & maybe get into a bit of discussion & debate on a subject.

But some people want nothing but to bash the other side. Some people ask mean-spirited questions, disregard the thought-out answers & give the “best answer” to the ugliest reply.

Mean answer - Because Christians are blind cattle who follow and are controlled by fear.
Fair answer - Religious people are followers - they can't think for themselves.
The message is the same, just one is said with a mean, divisive spirit, the other was just expressing his opinion as respectfully as it could be.

An example of a mean-spirited question. WHY DO NEOCONS THINK THAT 'NEOCON' MEANS NEW CONSERVATIVE WHEN ANYONE WITH COMMON SENSE KNOWS lT MEANS STUPID?
Same principal, stated not as meanly. “WHO ELSE THINKS ‘NEOCONS' DON'T MAKE MUCH SENSE?”
1st Q only invites insults. 2nd Q invites open disscusion.

2006-06-26 06:16:06 · 17 answers · asked by leopardlady 6

2006-06-26 06:09:35 · 38 answers · asked by greendayluvu 2

2006-06-26 06:06:14 · 10 answers · asked by Menifeedave 2

I've might alot in my day, and they've all been pretty selfrightous

2006-06-26 05:57:42 · 19 answers · asked by chicagoan86 3

2006-06-26 05:54:31 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-26 05:53:22 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

A non-serious question was asked"Do you think the New York Times is helping Al-Qaida?" And the nationalistic belligerent right-wing wackos started coming out of the wood work.Yee-haw! What the hell do you have to actually DO to a person to get him into a state where he would give such a stupid question such a serious answer?
Scary that anybody that backwards still exists.

2006-06-26 05:48:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Republican sheep, comprising inbred hillbilly retards and uptight Yuppy yes-men, push on under the illusion that the bigshots really appreciate flunkies. But the winners of the Enron Generation and their allies, the un-American Old Money degenerates, look on anyone who's not on top with them as gullible economic cannon fodder. The internationalist elitists smirk at all these American'ts. Fat cats love mice. A Bushwhackoff is a boytoy for the hoity-toity.

2006-06-26 05:44:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-06-26 05:44:26 · 7 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5

2006-06-26 05:31:35 · 11 answers · asked by Dr.Feelgood 5

2006-06-26 05:14:46 · 11 answers · asked by Darthritus 3

2006-06-26 05:13:41 · 24 answers · asked by Darthritus 3

Bush is also a certified jet aircraft pilot, has been the Governor of Texas and a two-term President of the United States.

I'm not specifically picking on "Spike Wilbury", it's just interesting to note that someone who spends the day typing nonsense on Yahoo would question the intellect of a man who has accomplished so much.

2006-06-26 04:59:45 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I personally see McCarthy as a bit of a national hero. I think that it is right to do everything possible to hunt down any left - wingers and expel them from politics. Witch hunts are a neccessary indulgance and I would suggest maybe boiling the red bastards. Long live Castro.

2006-06-26 04:59:39 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous