Politics - 6 July 2007

Studies show that raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gasses than all vehicles and planes combined.
http://www.peta.org/feat-globalwarming.asp so why hasn't he mentioned being a vegetarian/vegan as a solution?

2007-07-06 13:45:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

it kinda goes both ways don't it.

2007-07-06 13:43:47 · 20 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Are we ready for a Black President, and does Obama fit the profile?

2007-07-06 13:37:24 · 18 answers · asked by newchenel 2

If I used the same tactics used on radio and media would a lot of people in the USA start to buy into what I am saying? I mean if I cherry picked storries and took things out of context to make the Taliban look good and Americans bad, would it work? I bet I could spin it pretty well.

2007-07-06 13:37:17 · 9 answers · asked by Truth Erector 3

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/pl_afp/uspoliticsbush_070706225930

2007-07-06 13:36:41 · 17 answers · asked by ? 6

Using all or part of the name of a politician or famous figure, what one line quip could you use to describe them.

Here's one to get the ball rolling:

"Cheney by name, Dick by Nature".

Not interested in your political affiliation, just well thought out tightly constructed quips.

2007-07-06 13:26:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems that today. Republicans aren't republicans and democrats are Giant sissies with no spine to stand up for something. Republicans are suppose to stand for very little government involvement and a free market. However, it seems with the NSA wire tapping and un-bided contracts for Halliburton they have gone away from their core values. Democrats are suppose to be more for the people, but with a majority control in the house and congress they haven't done a freaking thing for the people. They are more interested in attacking Republicans. Not that Bush and Cheney haven't done some inappropriate things that I feel they should be held accountable for. I would just like to see Democrats focus on more then just attacking Republicans. The question is what do "we the people do" Unless your dirt poor and on welfare or rich making more 250k plus a year. neither party does anything for you. The middle class seems to be ignored. Will any of the candidates change any of this?

2007-07-06 13:23:03 · 13 answers · asked by usefulidiot230 3

And who do you think will represent each party in the General Election

Fred Thompson
Barack Obama
Mitt Romeny
Hilary Clinton
Rudy Guliani

2007-07-06 13:17:18 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 13:08:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

of Iraq?

2007-07-06 12:54:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

like Scooter Libby walk away from a jail sentence?

2007-07-06 12:48:23 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-06 12:45:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Back in college I had to take a Philosophy course in that course I was exposed to the actual "Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx. In that book I was struck at how it pertains to the present day not the entire philosophy, but some portions. Marx stated that the powers that be in order to stay in power would stir up trouble, expose differences all to keep the common man at each others throat.
That being said I point out the constant bickering between common people not the politicians, but people like you and me. Now I ask you how many people here liberal or conservative get to talk to their representative in Washington or have had their U.S. Senator intervene on their behalf. Few if any but those same politicians Democratic or Republican have open arms for their fat cat contributors. These contributors are the one that control our government, not us.
I think it is serious time that people start the formation of a new party one that truly represents what us, the American People want!

2007-07-06 12:40:45 · 19 answers · asked by Frank R 7

how come Bush let Libby walk away ?

2007-07-06 12:39:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

What is this? like 48 months of straight job growth?



Only total losers are not doing good in this economy.

2007-07-06 12:31:27 · 10 answers · asked by hugahugababy 2

I hear a lot of talk from US right-wingers about how liberals are to blame for all of the problems the USA has. However, the Republican Party has been in the White House since 2000 and for most of that time it has also had control of both Houses. Anyone who might be described as a liberal barely got a look-in at all.

So why do such people blame liberals? Have they aligned themselves with one particular party and are apologists for its inadequacies (or rather the inadequacies of the people currently leading it)? Or is there something else going on?

I am not criticizing the USA, a country I have respect for. I am merely trying to understand a political phenomenon that baffles me. In my own country (UK) the Conservative party's been out of power for ten years, yet no-one in the present Government, contemptible though they often are, or the present Government's supporters, blame the Conservatives for Britain's problems.

Your comments?

2007-07-06 12:29:10 · 24 answers · asked by Citizen Justin 7

If the husband is just a rent a cop at WalMarts am I in the clear?

2007-07-06 12:22:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's Terrorist Surveillance, Not Domestic Spying

"A federal appeals court today ordered the dismissal of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's domestic spying program..." It wasn't a domestic spying program! "The two-to-one ruling by the sixth US Circuit Court of Appeals panel was not on the legality of the program itself. What the ruling did was vacate an order by a lower court in Detroit last August that the post-9/11 warrantless surveillance aimed at uncovering terrorist activity was unconstitutional, violating rights to privacy and free speech. The ACLU led the suit on behalf of other groups, including lawyers, journalists, and scholars, it says have been handicapped in doing their jobs by the government monitor." It was not "domestic spying," and the AP knows it by virtue of how they write it up in the third paragraph.

2007-07-06 12:18:58 · 14 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

Both can't stand America and embrace nutty conspiracy theories. Al Qaida beleives Holocaust never happened and the socialist anti-american blogs think Diebold stole the election and Bush pulled off 9/11.

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.

Whether they are defending the terrorists or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant!

2007-07-06 11:53:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

they never really do anything about these things are arent even that important in the first place . I think that real issues like immigration that have the ability to change the country forever or even destroy the country if we are not careful.

2007-07-06 11:47:44 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

It's time now, folks, for another installment in the monthly "Better Than Expected" series from the Drive-By Media. This time, it's job growth. Headline from Jeannine Aversa, AP economics writer: "Job Growth Is Better-Than-Expected." What is this, the sixth or seventh straight month where all the experts have been stunned by economic news? "Employers boosted payrolls by a better than expected 132,000 jobs in June, enough to keep the unemployment rate at a relatively low..." Relatively low! It's record low! (You just have to love these people. Everybody's being exposed to the way they do things and they don't get it! They continue. They refuse to adapt. "...better than expected 132,000 jobs...relatively low unemployment rate at 4.5%. It was another sign that the economy is snapping out of a nearly year-long sluggish spell." A nearly year-long sluggish spell? I love this part of the article, too. It says, "Despite the healthy jobs market and the budding rebound the public is giving President Bush low marks for his economic stewardship." Oh! Well, I'm so surprised. The media spend 30 days a month reporting how bad everything is going, then on the 31st day of the month they write the CYA, the "economy's getting better than expected" story, and it's on to the next four straight weeks of hand-wringing. It's all about creating a perception of disaster, imminent doom, and crisis.

They follow up that with copious polling to see how well they're doing at creating that perception. You know, polls are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they're "managing the news," and "managing the news" is exactly what they do. That phrase comes from this guy in the Buffalo News. He had a newspaper column the other day that we read to you about the immigration bill and how the old media got trampled here, and the new media ran away with it, and they gotta figure out now -- the old Drive-Bys have to figure out -- how they're going to "manage the news of the presidential race." Whether it was unwittingly done or not, that's one of the best eye-openers as to how people in the Drive-By Media view their jobs that I've ever seen: "manage the news." So all polls are, for the most part, are the quality control tests that the Drive-Bys use to gauge how well they're managing the news. "Let's say they spend 30 days just beating the garbage out of the economy, just ripping it to shreds. Then they go out and do a poll: 'How's Bush doing on the economy?'" and the poll says, "Bush sucks on the economy," and the Drive-Bys say, "See? We've been managing the news well. We're doing a damn good job of creating a negative perception where none exists." That's exactly how it works.

2007-07-06 11:36:51 · 22 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1

A copy of the constitution and the bill of rights?

2007-07-06 11:32:51 · 23 answers · asked by jeb black 5

1. Lincoln - Kept the country together/ Freed the Slaves.

2. Washington - Could have been King. Chose Democracy

3. Reagan – The Great Communicator Brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. Created 20 million new jobs.

4. Teddy Roosevelt - the first real free trader and environmentalist.

5. GWB – The Great Liberator Kept America safe from Terrorists Attacks after 9/11. Liberated 50 million hopeless Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq (Soon to be Iran). Smoking Hot economy & Brought Honor & Dignity back to the White House after the Impeached Clinton.


Bottom 5

1. Woodrow Wilson - WWI was a horrible choice.

2. Andrew Johnson - Impeached

3. Carter – Soviets marching everywhere, hostages being taken, long gas lines, high interest rates and unemployment. Basically the worst parts of the Bible.

4. Clinton – The Great Fornicator Brought a 19 year old Chubby Intern to her knees, lied about it and was IMPEACHED. Then he was disbarred.

5. Millard Fillmore!

2007-07-06 11:30:34 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.zombietime.com/anti-july_4th_sf/

2007-07-06 11:28:43 · 18 answers · asked by ☆Bombastic☆ 5

I do

2007-07-06 11:19:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do

2007-07-06 11:18:48 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

We've been walking around Iraq for 4 years now Where are these Guys? And why isn't the military and the State Dept moving to find these Guys?

K Clubs
Izzat IBRAHIM al-Duri Vice Chair of the RCC, North Reg CmdrReportedly captured, reportedly killed but still at large

K Hearts
Hani Abd Latif Tilfa al-Tikriti SSO Director
At large** $1 Million

J Clubs
Sayf al-Din Fulayyih Hassan Taha al-Rawi RGFC Chief At large(?)** [or maybe dead? see note2]

J Hearts
Rafi Abd Latif al Tilfah DGS Director At large
$1 Million Reward

J Diamonds
Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti IIS Director At large**
$1 Million Reward

9 Spades
Rukan Razuki abd al-Ghafar al-Majid Sulayman al-Tikriti Chief of Tribal Affairs At large
$1 Million Reward

5 Diamonds
Abd al-Baqi abd al-Karim Abdallah al-Sadun BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Baghdad At large

4 Diamonds
Yahya Abdallah al-Ubaydi BP Chmn & Cmdr BP Militia Basrah Gov. At large
$1 Million Reward

2007-07-06 11:17:07 · 10 answers · asked by Village Player 7

When Bushco were making up lie after lie to justify our illegal invasion/occupation of Iraq the U.S. media was spitting out the propaganda like the loyal accomplice they are..."Weapons of Mass Destruction", "We're going to introduce democracy to the Iraqi people" etc.etc...lie, lie, lie

But now that the Iraq National Oil Law is being pushed through our puppet Iraqi government the media doesn't seem all that interested.

Iraq is only going to control 17 of their established oil fields. We're stealing the other 63. We're going to privatize the Iraqi oil and let Exxon Mobil + suck all of the profit out of Iraq, leaving Iraq a permanent third world country....with the second largest oil reserves in the world.

Here is the reason for the war. It's happening right now. Why isn't this the only subject on the "news"? "Lots of blood for oil." Here's what our soldiers killed and died for

http://www.bushagenda.net/article.php?id=369

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22453

2007-07-06 11:11:15 · 11 answers · asked by Peace Warrior 4

Isn't four years enough patience? How will this effect things here at home?

2007-07-06 11:03:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

President Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles." At issue here is the American involverment in the League of Nations.

President Wilson went to Paris at the end of World War I, to ensure that a fair and just peace would be established at the end of the war. Membership in the League of Nations, he said was essential. Without an international peace organization to handle international disputes, said Wilson future wars were inevidable. Wilson 's critics, lead by Republican Senate leader Henry Cabot Lodge, argued that Wilson was not a realist. Americans wanted peace now, not further involvement in European affairs, said Lodge.
Question:

What do you think about President Wilson? Was he just too idealistic about world peace? Did President Wilson really understand what was needed at the end of World War I ?

2007-07-06 11:02:04 · 5 answers · asked by Jassy 3