Politics - 26 June 2007

This was a post to a question I asked earlier today that I happen to agree with. It was posted by S C.

"Scandals used to be scandalous and politicians used to (usually) resign when they were caught in scandalous situations. The Clinton administration numbed us to scandal.

There were so many major scandals not just involving Bill and Monica but Hillary's financial dealings, the Travelgate affair, Whitewater, the cabinet members who had to step down due to wrongdoing, the former associates from Arkansas convicted of a multitude of crimes and sent to jail..... and let's not forget the gross abuse of the Presidential pardon privilege in the last hours of the Slick Willie presidency .......and the White House artifacts found in the moving van."

And he didn't mention it all, especially Vince Foster, who was supposed to have committed suicide.

What do you think?

2007-06-26 14:57:00 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think he might like John McCain. But its hard to say.

2007-06-26 14:50:30 · 14 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1

2007-06-26 14:43:44 · 2 answers · asked by Hannah A 1

Be honest, now.

2007-06-26 14:38:57 · 23 answers · asked by flushles 3

2007-06-26 14:38:00 · 1 answers · asked by christine2550@sbcglobal.net 2

Ok this subject seems to come up alot because of the emotional beliefs on both sides of the topic.

I get the idea that Pro choicers believe that Pro Lifers are trying to take away their freedom of choice. Pro Lifers believe that there is just as much value to an unborn life as their is to a full grown one and a practice of taking away that life is not a matter of choice for anyone.. it just should not be done. For instance if you saw a Weightlifter beating up a 2 year old ..wouldnt you stop it? This is how we feel about abortion, someone making a choice of life and death over another life that is helpless. The absolute hate of some pro choicers towards pro lifers is almost to the point of hysteria and im not talking about the extreme fringes of some nutjobs..because believe me i know we got some on the pro lifer side.. this hatred is becomming more mainstream. So just settle down and think of how we are looking at abortion TRUTHFULLY before you go into hysterics..

2007-06-26 14:32:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

My vote is for Oklahoma. I grew up in a poverty stricken town there and thinking back on some of the things they handed out to people sickens me. It was just an incentive to be lazy.

First of all, they give out food stamps in the form of an "access card" which is just like a credit card that is only allowed to pay for food purchases (though some grocery stores would bend the rules and enter beer and cigarettes as "grocery"). When you take a blue credit card out of your wallet, the cashier would always enter it as an access card and have to re-do it, they were so used to those things.

Secondly, in lieu of medic-aid, Oklahoma offers a government paid private insurance plan called SoonerCare, which is just like a regular plan but the state picks up the tab. It's a far better plan that what they give state workers, such as teachers.

Finally, it is EXTREMELY easy to get on welfare. Just tell certain psycologists you're too depressed to work, and bingo! you get SSI for life.

2007-06-26 14:22:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

;-)

2007-06-26 13:59:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 13:28:45 · 1 answers · asked by PD 6

If she becomes president

2007-06-26 13:24:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

like healthcare? Why are so many americans so ignorant?

2007-06-26 12:58:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

i haven't really heard much about what they think, other than hillary and obama both voted for it. are there any candidates that don't support it?

2007-06-26 12:30:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 12:22:36 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

If They Can Make It Through the Border
Open for the enemy.


“America is still the land of opportunity,” Senator John McCain recently said. “And we’re not going to erect barriers and fences.”

Unlucky us.

Along with Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, the Arizona Republican cosponsored immigration legislation currently crawling through the Senate. McCain should recognize that without a barrier or fence, the U.S./Mexican frontier will continue to welcome Islamic extremists pledged to America’s doom.

This is not hypothetical.

“Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have already entered the United States across our southwest border,” declares “A Line in the Sand,” a January report of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Investigations, then-chaired by Texas Republican Michael McCaul.


The study cites FBI Director Robert Mueller’s March 2005 congressional testimony confirming that, “there are individuals from countries with known al Qaeda connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities, learning to speak Spanish, and pretending to be Hispanic immigrants.”

Zapata County, Texas Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez told a House International Relations subcommittee last July 7: “If smugglers can bring in tons of marijuana and cocaine at one time and can smuggle 20 to 30 persons at one time, one can just imagine how easy it would be to bring in two or three terrorists or their weapons of mass destruction across the river and not be detected.”

In Fiscal Year 2005 alone, the latest data show 3,308 aliens got caught sneaking into America from nations the State Department considers state-sponsors of terrorism: 3,262 Cubans, 25 Iranians, four North Koreans, four Sudanese, and 13 Syrians. Assuming the Cubans all were pro-American anti-Communists, 46 people remain from terror-supporting nations. A group that size could staff another September 11 more than twice over, or populate seven more Lackawanna Six Islamic-fanatic conspiracies.

Others who were collared that year departed nations in which terrorists thrive, though without government assistance: three Saudis, seven Lebanese, seven Yemenis, 11 Algerians, 15 Afghans, 17 Egyptians, 22 Somalis, 25 Indonesians, 27 Jordanians, and 101 Pakistanis. Let’s hope these 235 individuals tried to break into America to harvest broccoli.

Of course, these are folks the Border Patrol arrested.

“Federal law enforcement entities estimate they apprehended approximately 10 to 30 percent of illegal aliens crossing the border,” that House report states. If true, aliens from terrorist-laden nations successfully penetrated America’s perimeter in numbers three to ten times those above.

May those we have missed be unlike those we have caught:

As children, Dritan, Eljvir, and Shain Duka illegally headed north into the United States across the Mexican border near Brownsville, Texas in 1984, a federal law-enforcement official told Fox News May 9. These Muslim Albanian refugees moved to New Jersey, and eventually became serial traffic offenders. Dritan’s driver’s license was suspended 11 times. Shain’s was suspended on 19 occasions, while Elvir received 24 suspensions. Local sanctuary laws prevented cops from inquiring about the Dukas’s immigration status or subsequently reporting them to relevant U.S. agencies.

Nonetheless, the Dukas’s notoriety deepened. Last May 7, authorities arrested them in the Garden State for advancing a suspected Islamofascist conspiracy to kill “as many soldiers as possible” with machine guns, mortars, and rocket-propelled grenades. As such, authorities say, the illegal-alien Duka brothers represent half of the Fort Dix Six.


As children, Fort Dix Six suspects Eljvir and Shain Duka — seen here last month in Camden, New Jersey’s U.S. District Court — reportedly crossed illegally into America from Mexico in 1984 with their accused-terrorist brother, Dritan.

Mahmoud Youssef Kourani pleaded guilty in March 2005 to providing terrorists material support. After bribing a Mexican diplomat in Beirut for a visa, Kourani and another Middle Easterner’s Mexican guides shepherded them into America. Kourani settled in Dearborn, Michigan’s Lebanese-immigrant enclave, where he raised cash for Hezbollah.

Federal agents arrested Neeran Zaia and Basima Sesi in September 2004 for smuggling more than 200 Middle Easterners — mainly Iraqis, Jordanians, and Syrians — through Latin America and Mexico into the U.S. Zaia previously was convicted of alien-smuggling.

Tijuana café owner Salim Boughader Mucharrafille was arrested in December 2002 for smuggling into America more than 200 Lebanese, including suspected Hezbollah associates.

Beyond Islamic prayer mats among the cacti, Jim Hogg County, Texas Border Patrol agents found a jacket with Arabic-language patches. One reads, “martyr” and “way to immortality.” The other depicts a jet flying into a skyscraper.



Despite September 2006 congressional vote to fence off 700 miles of the southern border, the Senate now backs only a 370-mile partition. This is especially discouraging, since that frontier’s condition is, officially, dismal:

“DHS does not as yet have a wholly satisfactory methodology of determining whether a portion of the border is considered under control from a system-wide, defense-in-depth, and continuously enforceable perspective,” laments a May 1 Homeland Security congressional update. “In the end, gaining control of the border requires gaining control of the entire border, so that as illegal immigration is stopped at one location along the border, it can find no alternate crossing point.”

In the end, Congress quickly must stitch the gaping wound across America’s underbelly. While the U.S./Canadian boundary is worrisome, 1/24 as many illegals traverse it, versus its southern counterpart. While most illegals come here to work, which presents its own challenges, others endure extreme heat and dodge Gila monsters to come here and kill us.

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2007-06-26 12:14:03 · 15 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

Will Cameron draw up a few battle plans now, or wait till a few more have scarpered?

2007-06-26 12:07:24 · 10 answers · asked by ? 5

First is was the dog food, then the bee food, The eastern forest of the US is under attack by a bug that is native to China, The great lakes are having a problem with a virus that's killing millions of fish...last know location of this virus was in China. China's war doctrine states to never raise your sword to defeat your enemies. Always deny all charges of wrong doing. What do you think is going on if anything! If so what should Americas response be?

2007-06-26 11:55:04 · 8 answers · asked by U.S. Revenge R 2

Do you think he would condone what's going on at GITMO and other places we have sent detainees?

How can these actions be reconciled with Christian beliefs?

2007-06-26 11:41:01 · 20 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

2007-06-26 11:39:08 · 14 answers · asked by HillBillieNot 3

Is outlawing safe abortion merely treating the symptom as opposed to the disease?

2007-06-26 11:34:40 · 13 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

2007-06-26 11:26:29 · 37 answers · asked by El Duderino 4

2007-06-26 11:16:37 · 15 answers · asked by ? 6

Great news. Tony Blair has been chosen as the middle east peace envoy. As prime minister he bought hell to the lives of the civilians there - children losing parents, parent losing children. The middle east since 1997 has been ripped apart and the world is not the same as it used to be. The world is a scary place - but luckily for him - he'll have guards and body guards.
In May 1997, he played things can only get better. What song should he play now that he is starting his new role?

2007-06-26 11:11:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why would a conservative do this?

2007-06-26 10:54:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or are they political hacks who would trade thier mother for a seat of power?
The far-right Washington Times noted the ongoing hostility between the White House and congressional Republicans over immigration policy today, and touched on a point that I haven’t seen elsewhere.
Conservative leaders among House Republicans say that President Bush’s upcoming showdown with them on immigration could threaten support for the Iraq war as well as for the president’s other top policy goals.
“The White House should keep in mind that if they have a direct confrontation with House Republicans on [immigration], it could affect the vote on the Iraq appropriation in September,” said Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican.
Is that so?
You mean it’s possible that House Republicans’ support for the president’s tragic war policy might have something to do with partisan loyalties, instead of sincere beliefs about the best way forward? I thought you were with us or against us, Guess it just BS afterall

2007-06-26 10:39:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are we next?
Will they also find a way to silence Conservatives on public forums such as Yahoo Q&A?
Is it possible that one day the police will come knocking on our door to arrest us for publicly expressing our Conservative point of views?
The tides are quickly turning people and the direction it's taking us in is leading us down a dark and unknown path.
One that as Americans we have never seen before and if we don't wake up and do something about it the freedoms we've always enjoyed will be forever lost.

2007-06-26 10:39:06 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous

I recently had another profile deleted by Yahoo for giving straight answers. So I decided to be liberal instead and realized that I don't know many of the beliefs of liberals. I know that I should support killing bab...I mean terminating pregnancies, but what else is there?

2007-06-26 10:27:28 · 22 answers · asked by nicolerichieslovechild 3

When the majority of Republican senators and congressman reject the Bush Co. ''stay the course''/''surge'' policies...

Will the mindless neocons then say that all of those same senators and congressmen were ''never really that good anyway''...

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

2007-06-26 10:25:22 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-26 10:24:39 · 17 answers · asked by Page 4

of course....its not as though the cons can admit to being idiots

2007-06-26 10:20:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

New Supreme Court ruling will allow more last minute ads by these groups. Is this a good thing for "free" speech?

2007-06-26 10:09:44 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous