Politics - 6 June 2007

2007-06-06 11:55:48 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Republicans Continue to Play Politics With Right to Vote

Washington, DC - Yesterday, Democrats united to defeat a harmful
Republican amendment that would have imposed a highly restrictive voter
ID law. The amendment to the Senate immigration reform bill would have
created a modern day poll tax which could disenfranchise millions of
Americans, specifically seniors, minorities, youth, urban and rural
voters and persons with disabilities. All of these groups are less
likely to have government issued photo ID's and would be forced to bear
an unnecessary burden just to exercise their fundamental right to vote.

The defeat of this amendment comes on the heels of recent revelations
that the Bush Administration attempted to pressure U.S. Attorneys to
pursue politically motivated cases of voter fraud, despite evidence
showing no proof of widespread voter fraud. As part of their consistent
pattern of putting partisan interests ahead of the people's business,
the Bush Administration and the Republican National Committee have led a
coordinated campaign to undermine voting rights over the past five
years.

"The American people were the real winners last night when Democrats
stood up and defeated Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's
harmful amendment," said Democratic National Committee Voting Rights
Institute Chair Donna Brazile. "The Republican Party continues to play
politics with the most fundamental right in our Democracy, the right to
vote. The American people went to the polls and spoke loud and clear
about their desire for change in November. Just because Republicans
dislike what Americans are saying doesn't mean they can block voters'
access to the ballot box. Democrats believe that democracy works best
when all legally eligible voters can exercise their right to vote. And
we believe that we should be working to make it easier and not harder
for Americans to vote and have their vote counted."

2007-06-06 11:55:11 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

as an american, i was amazed when i watched a news documentary on BBC regarding "tea" parlors in which men would go to and "dress up" as women and have mid-day tea parties in drag. afterwards they get dressed back normally and return to their everyday life. is this where the term "tea bag" came from?

2007-06-06 11:49:32 · 14 answers · asked by ὀκτάπους 5

2007-06-06 11:45:52 · 26 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

2007-06-06 11:42:47 · 16 answers · asked by RX 5

2007-06-06 11:42:01 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

The USA has now had a trade embargo against Cuba for approaching 45 years. Cuba is socialist but is now isolated politically and is no longer a potential base for Russian nuclear missiles. Should the trade embargo be abandoned? What do you think?

2007-06-06 11:41:10 · 11 answers · asked by Huh? 7

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12058§ionid=3510213

2007-06-06 11:38:59 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Muhammad is the second most popular name for baby boys in Britain, new research has found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6727101.stm
Muhammad to be the No.1 in boy's names in the UK by next year
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070606/139/6gpqp.html

2007-06-06 11:37:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally, I dig looking at the skin ....but im not a killer sizing up his next victim...........I mean, exactly what is the point of all those tight, skin tight outfits and shorts that go all the way up there???

2007-06-06 11:37:30 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-06 11:29:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

There has to be a least one person here who understands the difference.

2007-06-06 11:19:40 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-06 11:17:50 · 27 answers · asked by AB17 4

Its the number one on tv people watch it a lot it will help get there word out. The ratings for cnn and nbc are lower than fox.

2007-06-06 11:17:48 · 23 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

2007-06-06 11:16:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

If my fellow americans are dying over there, the least our government can is give us some cheap gas.

2007-06-06 11:16:13 · 13 answers · asked by bustinguts_1974 1

If you hate things work to change it.

2007-06-06 11:13:42 · 15 answers · asked by crazy_squirrelly_girl 2

Since pro-choice people use, as an argument, that the children who are born should be "wanted," do pro-choice couples with children refer to the children as "the ones we wanted" or "the ones we kept" or "the unaborted"?

2007-06-06 11:12:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

A body was found and they think it was the 18 year old girl that just went missing.

Should there be more programs out there to help women learn how to defend themselves?

I grew up in Los Angeles and learned how to keep safe. They told us to never get in a car with someone. You'd be better off running or fighting and getting shot because you'd have a higher change of survival that way. Once in the car your chances go way down.

I moved to a small town and I was shocked that no one teaches their children how to stay safe. Things as simple as, you walk down the street with traffic coming toward you. If someone suspicious comes along you simply run in the opposite direction of the car.

Now I know this kinda stuff doesn't prevent all crimes but it seems like it would help.

How could we do more to protect and educate women?

2007-06-06 11:08:41 · 15 answers · asked by Jasmine 5

2007-06-06 11:07:42 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-06 11:07:08 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't see the point of war. Most people in the countries of the world don't even agree with their leaders, and they get bombed and killed for something ONE president or dictator did. If you're pissed off at someone, at least have the balls to kill them instead of the millions of people who didn't do anything wrong. Unless you're a chick, then you don't need balls, um, yeah I'd go with "spunk" or something along those lines. And why do we need to fight anyway? Me, I would go and talk about it and tell the leader to shut the **** up, instead of spending millions of dollars to bomb innocent people. Doesn't that make more sense? OoOoOo amazing.

2007-06-06 11:04:26 · 2 answers · asked by Jesse 3

2007-06-06 11:04:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

all those Bush bashers comments, on how they think Bush is the anti-christ, and the worst President in history. And as an American I am anyone else.

2007-06-06 11:04:09 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Her beiefs notwithstanding, Hilary is a woman, she has no business being a president, senator, or in any other position of power. These are traditional values that like it or not, our nation was built upon. A woman is not to rule over a man, ever. Why cant we keep our traditions without them being ruled rasist, bias, sexist, ect?

2007-06-06 11:03:38 · 13 answers · asked by saveusfromhumanism 1

2007-06-06 11:01:40 · 18 answers · asked by marty justa wonderin 2

2007-06-06 11:01:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

What can we do when we have state legislatures passing pointless resolutiuons to impeach our president. Wasnt this insubordination taken care of in the civil war? What can we do to combat this nonsense?

2007-06-06 11:00:19 · 11 answers · asked by saveusfromhumanism 1

Immigration is a hot topic. Most of us agree that illegal immigrants should be deported and that the amnesty bill is not in our best interests at all. I've not seen one person totally disagree (other than a few democrats, Bush, and McCain).

Of course, this being a republic and not a democracy, we have no votes, no say on specific bills. Some of these bills affect us directly, the everyday hard-working people, rather than the officials making these decisions for us.

In fact, I think it's one of very few subjects both parties can agree on - that we don't want amnesty. We don't even want the illegals we already have. We need to band together now, more than ever, to say not no, but hell no to amnesty. Why have I not seen anyone taking this to the streets of Washington? In the distant past we've seen people protest many things, and brought about change.

Why have Americans become so complacent?

2007-06-06 10:53:30 · 20 answers · asked by Karma 6

I can go onto Megan's Law. com and look up all the pervs in my neighborhood, but to knock on their door and tell them how disgusting I think they are is against the law.

They've gotten away with their crimes. They stole an child's innocence and I don't see why they should be shielded from the public. Most of the are repeat offenders who will never learn.

Why do child molestors and rapists get more sympathy and help from than their victims?

2007-06-06 10:51:01 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous