Politics - 25 July 2007

2007-07-25 07:16:04 · 10 answers · asked by mountaindew25 3

And, do all possible to keep terrorists off of US soil?

2007-07-25 07:14:54 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Main Entry: cap•i•tal•ism : an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market

How the Energy Dice Were Loaded
The names of some of the corporate big shots and industry lobbyists who helped shape the deliberations and conclusions of the super-secret Cheney energy task force in 2001 are now beginning to surface, thanks to a former White House aide who provided a list to The Washington Post.
It’s interesting to discover that Kenneth Lay, Enron’s chairman, was favored with two audiences. But the rest is sadly familiar. The task force, which developed a national energy policy, had all the time in the world for the big energy producers — some 40 meetings with the oil, gas and coal companies and their trade associations — but barely a moment for environmentalists.

2007-07-25 07:14:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-25 07:14:03 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

where was rudy gulliani with his protection also?

2007-07-25 07:11:50 · 15 answers · asked by canada1usa0 5

Why Won’t Al Gore Debate?

Author: Joseph L. Bast
Published by: The Heartland Institute
Published in: News Releases
Publication date: June 2007


CHICAGO, IL: In recent months, former vice president Al Gore has become the world’s most recognized advocate of the theory that human greenhouse gas emissions are altering the world’s climate and could cause catastrophic damage if not arrested and reduced. He is getting hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity from the press and from environmental groups that echo his warning.

But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.

Maybe it’s because climate alarmists tend to lose when they debate climate realists. Or because most scientists do not support climate alarmism.

Dennis Avery, coauthor of the best-selling book Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, is still waiting for Gore to respond to his April 16 formal debate challenge:

[Our two] books represent the two leading explanations for the earth’s recent temperature changes—and they conflict. If global warming truly is the most important public policy issue of our day, then it is high time the public got to hear the arguments from both sides matched up against each other. How else can people make informed decisions? Therefore, I formally challenge you to debate me at a public event, preferably to be televised or carried by a radio station, sometime in the coming months.

Avery is director of the Center for Global Food Issues and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He holds awards for outstanding performance from three different government agencies and was awarded the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement in 1983. He travels the world as a speaker, has testified before Congress, and has appeared on most of the nation's major television networks. He is well-qualified to debate Gore ... and certainly at least merits the decency of a response to his challenge, which he has yet to receive.

Avery is not the only person to challenge Gore to debate. Lord Monckton of Brenchley, a former advisor to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, issued the following challenge on March 14:

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley presents his compliments to Vice-President Albert Gore and by these presents challenges the said former Vice-President to a head-to-head, internationally-televised debate upon the question “That our effect on climate is not dangerous,” to be held in the Library of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History at a date of the Vice-President’s choosing.

Forasmuch as it is His Lordship who now flings down the gauntlet to the Vice-President, it shall be the Vice-President’s prerogative and right to choose his weapons by specifying the form of the Great Debate. May the Truth win! Magna est veritas, et praevalet.


Like Avery, Lord Monckton is eminently qualified to debate Gore—see here and here for his recent writing on global warming—and Gore thought highly enough of him to respond to one of his essays. Like Gore, Lord Monckton is a prominent figure in the global warming debate who is not a scientist or professional economist. He would seem to be an appropriate and worthy opponent.

But Gore refuses to debate Lord Monckton, just as he refuses to debate Dennis Avery and a growing list of prominent scientists, economists, novelists, and policy experts.

If the scientific debate over global warming is over, as Gore and other climate alarmists so often claim, why is Al Gore afraid to debate?

Is it because there is no scientific consensus on the causes or effects of global warming? Is it because a growing number of experts believe we should invest in adapting to global warming—whether it is due to natural or human causes—rather than spend hundreds of billions of dollars trying to stabilize or reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Whatever the reason, we believe Al Gore should debate his critics. If you agree, please ask Al Gore to accept Dennis Avery's challenge.

Dennis Avery can be contacted directly via email at cgfi@hughes.net.

For more information about Lord Monckton’s challenge to Al Gore, go to the Web site of the Center for Environment and Public Policy.

2007-07-25 07:10:53 · 13 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

Why are members of the GOP defending David Koresh and the murders of many? I thought they were tough on crime? Do they NOW sympathize with the branch davidians that they are just misunderstood? How do they justify going after Saddam Hussein if they cannot jusitfy going after other criminals? Should we have just let Saddam go on with his business? Let him continue to refuse anyone to come onto 'his property'? Shameful, those of you who tout Koresh as a martyr...

2007-07-25 07:09:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

For those of you who are constantly droning on about how we're losing in Iraq, could I get some good solid reasons why? I've never heard anyone back up that statement.

"You know what was really amazing? The people who said, 'Chris, you know, I don't support the cause, but no matter what the cause, I'm always going to support the troops.' I was just dumbfounded by that. I asked this one guy why you don't support the cause. He said, 'I've been watching the news.' "Well," I said, "that's your problem."

-- Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Chris Bain

reconnaissance and chemical weapons specialist, January-April 2004

2007-07-25 07:09:21 · 20 answers · asked by Daniel A: Zionist Pig 3

Or were those an Az phenomenom?

Two hints, they were not fundementalists
and they were an article of clothing.

2007-07-25 07:08:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

And NM isn't the worst - it's ranked #47 out of 50.

2007-07-25 07:05:57 · 22 answers · asked by Joe D 2

If we do, will the Dems simply say "Oh well. At least we protected our 'rights'" even if a million Americans died?

2007-07-25 07:03:31 · 18 answers · asked by Duminos 2

2007-07-25 07:01:32 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Al's Diary Notes :::

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more. .. NO !!

Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher . . . . But I flew too high
Though my eyes could see I still was a blind-man
Though my mind could think I still was a Mad-Man
I hear the voices when I'm dreamin
I can hear them say. . ..

Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more. . . NO !!

(enjoy the musical interlude. . . tap your desks , play the air-guitar for all your co-workers)

Masquerading as a man with a reason
My Charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man
It surely means that I don't know

On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for the winds of for-tune
But I hear the voices sa-a-a-a-y

Carry on my wayward son. . . . ..

2007-07-25 07:00:01 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

or does it seem strange that just days after Bush vetoed bills for the withdrawal of our troops from Iraq... we are having another security lock down on airports?


seems a little too convenient, what do you think?

2007-07-25 06:59:36 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bill was at least wise enough to chance the rules of engagement after those travesties.

Will Hillary overturn those changes, which include waiting out the owners?

2007-07-25 06:57:32 · 18 answers · asked by Duminos 2

Do they sometimes get these two mixed up? To them they are both people they don't want around and would rather avoid and pretend they never existed than face them head-on.

By all means, 'ENLIGHTEN' ME, LIBS!!

2007-07-25 06:46:02 · 27 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3

The dream police they live inside of my head
The dream police they come to me in my bed
The dream police they're comin to a-rrest me Oooooooh nooooo

You know that talk is cheap , and those rumors ain't nice
And when I fall a-sleep I don't think I'll survive the night .. . . the ni-i-i-ight
Cause they're waitin for me , they're lookin for me
Ev-ery sin-gle ni-i-ight
They're drivin me in-sane
Those men in-side my brain

The dream police they live inside of my head
The dream police they come to me in my bed
The dream police they're comin to a-rrest me . . . Ooooooh nooooooo

Well I can't tell lies
Cause they're listenin to meeeee
And when I fall a-sleep
Bet they're spy-in on me. .. . to-night. . . TO-NIGHT

Cause they're waitin for me , they're lookin for me
Ev-ery sin-gle night
They're drivin me insane
Those men in-side my brain

Truly though , I wonder why 'law-abiding' citizens would be afraid of wire-taps designed to stop Criminal Terrorists ??
Can you help me understand ?

2007-07-25 06:44:43 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

..Bush and the neocons are a bad memory we have mostly forgotten, and Universal Health Care is covering everyone....

Will the cons claim all of it was REALLY their idea like they do about segregation, civil rights, the civil war, and the founding of the nation?

2007-07-25 06:42:27 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

Think of all webs of deceit he can spin. Plus, he got his third movie by stealling ticket sales from other, bettter movies.

DRAGON 2008
"I BELIEVE IN U.S."

2007-07-25 06:39:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

what do you Serbs think?

2007-07-25 06:35:00 · 5 answers · asked by Manofthewest 5

2007-07-25 06:30:41 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems they are bent on terrible news of death and destruction to get themselves elected.

What would they do if Iraq turned out successful?

2007-07-25 06:23:09 · 16 answers · asked by Frank Dileo 3

What did bush lie about, looking for his exact quotes, not the media spin?
To lie is to state something one believes to be false with the intention that it be taken for the truth by another.

Bush was told by a reasonable source that WMDs were in Iraq, so he didn’t lie about that

Mission accomplished was announced on the ship that completed Its mission, more media spin. If Bush said mission accomplished while standing in the middle of Bagdad that would be different

2007-07-25 06:22:57 · 14 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

...you are blocked because you answers support American Freedom more than one maniac's fragile ego?

2007-07-25 06:17:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

He went to war on false pretenses

Spent trillions of tax payer money on this war that did not provide anything meaningful for us

Disregarded pretty much all the scandals that happened under his administration

and he is yet to catch osama bin laden as he was suppossed to plus they have not found any weapons of mass destruction either.

For the few people left who support him,is it just wishful thinking or what?

2007-07-25 06:14:15 · 17 answers · asked by ericktravel 6

Think of all the wacky situations they would get in.

DRAGON 2008
"I BELIEVE IN U.S."

2007-07-25 06:13:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary whispered to Kucinich , but not quietly enough. . ..

Hello , yeah , it's been awhile
Not much , how bout you?
I'm not sure why I called , I guess I really just wanted to talk to you

And I was thinkin maybe later on
We could get together for awhile
It's been such a long time , and I really do miss your smile

I'm not talkin bout movin-in
And I don't wanna change your life
But there's a warm-wind blowin the stars around
And I'd really love to see you tonight

We could go walkin through a windy park
Take a drive along the beach
Stay home and watch TV ya see it really doesn't matter much to meeeee-ee-e-e-e.

i'm not talkin bout movin-in
And I don't wanna change your life
But there's a warm-wind blowin the stars around
And I'd really love to see you tonight

I won't ask for pro-mises
So ya don't have to LIE
We both played that game before
Say 'I love you' then say good-bye

I'm not talkin bout movin-in.. . . . . . . . . . . .

Is little Dennis a serious candidate ?

2007-07-25 06:11:20 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

how so? I think what 80% of america is now christian. Do you honestly think politicians are going to alienate 80% of their voters? So then who is doing the discriminating and how are you being discriminated against?
Before you answer bear in mind that not being allowed to force your beliefs on others does not count as discrimination.

2007-07-25 06:08:03 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q5eTXBOUP4+

2007-07-25 06:05:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

BAGHDAD - Iraq's largest Sunni Arab bloc said Wednesday it had suspended membership in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition government, a fresh setback to the Shiite leader's faltering efforts at national reconciliation.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ak90X46mF2YvFNIonNA6ncqs0NUE

2007-07-25 06:04:57 · 12 answers · asked by bbbbriggs04 3