Politics - 12 August 2007

2007-08-12 06:19:02 · 12 answers · asked by Ethan M 5

Just curious. I know they can't run for President but...

2007-08-12 06:15:09 · 5 answers · asked by Guessses, A.R.T. 6

2007-08-12 06:14:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

From the Aug 11th Associated Press release

Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries.
For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles.
Countries that surpass the U.S. include Japan and most of Europe, as well as Jordan, Guam and the Cayman Islands.

"Something's wrong here when one of the richest countries in the world, the one that spends the most on health care, is not able to keep up with other countries," said Dr. Christopher Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

2007-08-12 06:12:54 · 12 answers · asked by kayakdudeus 4

2007-08-12 06:03:08 · 45 answers · asked by xxxxx 2

In further testament of our deranged tort system, Jeromy Jackson of West Virginia is suing McDonalds for $10 million because they put cheese on his Quarter Pounder With Cheese, even though he didn't want any.

Jackson claims to be allergic to cheese. According to the lawsuit, he "was only moments from death" after eating some cheeseburger.

Whether this parasite is laughed out of court remains to be seen. In 1992, a klutz named Stella Liebeck was awarded $3 million for spilling McDonalds coffee on herself.

Imagine how bad it will get if "the Breck Girl" John Edwards, patron saint of pathological trial lawyers, ever slithers his way into the White House. Capitalism will be sued out of existence

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292970,00.html

2007-08-12 06:02:06 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-12 05:59:11 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you live in the American South, then yes, yes it is. Congratulations.

2007-08-12 05:58:33 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

"A moral compass can only point you in the right direction. It can't make you go there.

Our (U.S.) culture preaches you shouldn't be ashamed of ANYTHING you do anymore, and, unfortunately the city is based on the principle, there is NO such thing as guilt.

Do whatever you want. We won't tell, so, without a conscience, there is NOTHING to stop you from killing somebody, and, evidently, you don't have to feel guilty about it....."

Hmmm can this REALLY be an explanation here?

2007-08-12 05:52:57 · 7 answers · asked by Hello 3

And agree to give us the referendum we were promised in the Labour Party manifesto for the last general election.Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos,now says the substance of the EU "reform treaty" is 98 per cent the same as that of the previous constitution. "The wrapping has been changed, but not the content"
The lying continues at number 10!!

2007-08-12 05:49:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

According to www.payscale.com, a lawyer averages $62,895 a year in his first four years working. All this with no risk to life or limb.

Enlisted soldier makes 26 to 30 thousand. They have a little more risk.

Don't you think that such risk and the service you claim to value so highly should be worth at least $60,000 a year?

When will any candidate, Democrat or Republican, offer to pay these poor abused soldiers even a fraction of what they are worth?

And please don't come back with pay numbers that include the value of all of those lovely camo uniforms and green t-shirts that the troops get for "free".

Costs of burial and prosthesis should not be calculated in either.

Second question, how much would you pay them?

Note, I am not in the military nor do I have any immediate family in the military at this time.

2007-08-12 05:46:50 · 18 answers · asked by Birdman 3

2007-08-12 05:43:56 · 11 answers · asked by Jared L 1

Conservatives are called such because they don't act like a bunch of baboons every time something happens. Most of us sit quietly and wait for the elections. Libs always clam the elections are rigged if they don't win, they don't realize that the conservative/republican party is a sleeping giant that only awakes when necessary.

2007-08-12 05:33:49 · 19 answers · asked by TJ815 4

people who can afford to goto the doctor and get antibiotic, or those who can't?

If the rate of contact between people who can afford health care, and the people who can't goes down by extending Healthcare access to those who can't afford it, do you think that your chances of getting sick from them would decrease, and reduce your own medical expenses?

Children and adults in families with incomes below or near
the federal poverty level have worse health than those with
higher incomes (see Appendix II, Poverty for a definition of
the federal poverty level). Although, in some cases, illness
can lead to poverty, more often poverty causes poor health
by its connection with inadequate nutrition, substandard
housing, exposure to environmental hazards, unhealthy
lifestyles, and decreased access to and use of health care
services
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus06.pdf#summary

2007-08-12 05:28:47 · 2 answers · asked by avail_skillz 7

With the success of the surge in Iraq becoming more evident with each passing day, a new ailment has gripped the Mainstream Media and the liberals: Surge Derangement Sydrome (SDS). The earliest known case of SDS occurred on April 23 when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid responded to a question by CNN's congressional correspondent Dana Bash about whether he would believe General David Petraeus if he reported that the "so-called surge" is working:

REID: No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening. All you have to do is look at the facts.


Well, as we do look at the facts that the surge is working, the MSM and the liberals are showing more signs of severe SDS. Some of these SDS signs have been noted in the August 9 edition of Investor's Business Daily, 'Surge' Critics Perhaps Were Bit Premature:

Do Democratic opposition leaders keep blaming each other for voting for the Iraq War? Or are they now talking about expanding military operations to other countries?

Sen. Hillary Clinton once was damned for voting to authorize the war in Iraq. But her even-more-liberal rival Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., now expresses his own willingness to invade nuclear Islamic Pakistan.

...we have heard from the House's majority whip, Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. He's worried that Gen. Petraeus' good news about the surge might be "a real problem for us" — "us" being anti-war Democrats. And at a congressional briefing, when Gen. Jack Keane reviewed the positive signs from the surge, Rep. Nancy Boyda, D-Kan., walked out on the testimony.

She complained that there was "only so much that you could take . . . after so much of the frustration of having to listen to what we listened to."


The SDS symptoms in the media have ranged from shock to feigned apathy, both of which examples were chronicled yesterday by NewsBusters Senior Editor Tim Graham. In the category of SDS shock is the stunned reaction on Wednesday of CNN American Morning anchor John Roberts when he heard Senator Dick Durbin state that there is military progress in Iraq:

But hold on. Let me back you up there. You said you did see military progress?


When Durbin confirmed that there was military progress with the caveat that there was little political improvement in Iraq, Roberts remained flustered:

I understand all of that. But Senator Durbin, everybody in the Democratic Party is saying that the surge has failed. Senator Casey, do you agree with your colleague that there are some signs of military progress here?


Unfortunately for Roberts, Senator Bob Casey was unable to ease his severe SDS with his confirmation that there was military progress in Iraq. In fact, Casey might have made Roberts' SDS even worse when he ridiculously suggested that now that the surge is working, it is time to change course from successful military policy in Iraq:

The problem here is that the President of the United States continues to insist on stay the course policy, no change in direction, no sense that the American people can determine that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. That's why I think there's a bipartisan agreement right now to change the course. I think the president should listen to the will of the American people.


In the feigned apathy category of SDS, we have the example of Matt Lauer. During his questioning of Senator John McCain on yesterday's Today Show, Lauer came up with this SDS gem:

There are some people who say, Senator, that the momentum, right now, in Congress is so strong to pull the troops out of Iraq that it doesn't matter what's in that report, in the middle of September from General Petraeus, or even in reports that follow that. Even if we start to change momentum in Iraq and start to see more success, the momentum in Congress is already so strong that it's unstoppable. How do you feel about that?


So now that the surge seems to be successful, Lauer is claiming that it doesn't really matter. His SDS is making him portray a successful surge as an obstacle to the liberal goal of leaving Iraq as quickly as possible. It is almost as if some commentator in 1944 stated that the successful landing in Normandy didn't matter. Of course, that didn't happen because no one suffered the equivalent of SDS in 1944.

What is the future prognosis for this severe ailment among the left? SDS will most likely continue to worsen until it reaches a fever pitch when General Petraeus makes his report to Congress on the progress of the surge in September. Shock, anger, and feigned apathy will be among its many symptoms as SDS takes its toll among the left.

2007-08-12 05:22:25 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Almost all of the Dem Presidential candidates, incluling Hilary, have now stated that US troops will stay in Iraq for MANY years.

So can the Democrat party still be called the cut & run party or aren't they as neocon as the neocon GOP?

2007-08-12 05:20:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

On one hand you have the Dems who are socialist, hate religion and have created a holocust (50 Million dead in the womd) just like the Nazis did and on the other you have the Republicans who have George Bush, I strong leader who kind of looks like Hitler without the mustach. Which party most resembles the Nazis?

2007-08-12 05:16:59 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are Democrats protecting illegal-immigrants?

Are you aware we have two democrats that are pro-illegal immigration?

Please help me contact those two and demand that they stay out of the way.



Dianne Feinstein
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index...

“The administration's approach is a Band-Aid that will not stop the looming crisis American agriculture will face this fall,” said Feinstein, D-Calif. “The crisis is that crops will not be harvested.”

Senator Kennedy
http://kennedy.senate.gov/senator/contac...

“Sadly, the administration's proposal would make our immigration crisis worse. Without strong new laws, the administration's plan will do little to enhance our security and will hurt millions of immigrant families who are contributing so much to our communities and our economy,” said Kennedy, D-Mass.

2007-08-12 05:01:29 · 14 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

The current administration is floundering.

The current candidates debate issues that may not be of significant importance.

What exactly matters to you, and would want to see brought forward?

2007-08-12 04:58:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

or have you not noticed:

1) you jobs are going overseas
2) slave laborers are bein imported with HB1 visas to take your jobs
3) Illegals are allowed to break law and waltz right in and take more jobs and depress wages
4) Big oil is making killer record profits while gas prices are at record highs
5) Your national budget spends more than it takes in from tax revenues and the difference is made up by borrowing money from communist china..yeah....RED china..the ones with the nuclear weapons pointed at us, and who have vowed to take Taiwan back by force if need be and building the armed forces to make it happen. The same red China that supplies weapons to our enemies throughout the world, weapons being used right now to kill our soldiers in Iraq.

6) Noticed how apathetic our elected leaders seem to be to embarking on a major push to wean ourselves from oil? in light of several reasons why its to our economic, geostrategic, and ecological benefit to do so?

WAKE UP EVERYBODY

2007-08-12 04:55:43 · 14 answers · asked by bush l 1

As near as I can tell, all of the top republican canditdates are fairly close to the worn out, incompetent and pie in the sky politics of the Bush Junta. Do most real republicans really want to continue the BushWar for Oil in Iraq, continue to enrich the health insurance industry by not insuring 43 or however many millions Americans, continue attempts to gut Social Security and degrade environmental regulations in favor of industry? Do republicans really want to continue to borrow billions of dollars from China to fund Bush's war, continue cutting taxes for corporations and gathering more and more power to the executive branch?

2007-08-12 04:49:55 · 10 answers · asked by Noah H 7

Are you content to become a Muslim state?

2007-08-12 04:48:06 · 12 answers · asked by mountaindew25 3

Does anyone know the pledge that one has to take when becoming an American citizen?

2007-08-12 04:41:53 · 3 answers · asked by egg_sammash 5

Or will they remain our colony perpetually?

2007-08-12 04:40:14 · 16 answers · asked by bush l 1

Five more American servicemen were killed in Iraq yesterday. Four more died from wounds here in the states. An even dozen were wounded, two of them permanently maimed. Fifty to a hundred Iraqis were killed and/or wounded...many permanently maimed. To what degree are we safer because of this?

2007-08-12 04:39:01 · 7 answers · asked by Noah H 7

Iraq will never be the same again just like Vietnam. Can Iraq heal? With time and not under occupation. No long lasting government has been developed under occupation ounce the occupying country withdrawals its forces, a struggle for power or civil war in sues. By remaining in Iraq we are only delaying the inevitable. Any government implemented by force will be met with resistance by the people of Iraq. In doing this we give the Taliban and other anti-American groups more allies. Will it ever be like before? Not as long as we (the USA) are there. Vietnam after we came home it took a few years and but they solved there own problems without our help.

2007-08-12 04:37:22 · 13 answers · asked by tony cola 2

I am just wondering what they are officially, since they are not part of our country, but yet we control their governements in terms of their policies..what they can or cannot do..etc..

Does that fall under the category of colony?

2007-08-12 04:32:19 · 15 answers · asked by bush l 1

...damn they're good liars.

2007-08-12 04:31:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

The nice fancy hospitals are useless if the doctors working in them dont provide good healthcare.
Or if they are not allowed to by HMO's.
Are we talking about health care or hospitals and the medical machinery in them.

If Angola has better health care than the US but facilities not up to par with the US that says they utilize what they have better than the US and they also have a better mindset when it comes to those needing healthcare.

A race car is just any other car without the right driver

2007-08-12 04:30:41 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

If they even existed......

2007-08-12 04:29:24 · 17 answers · asked by My Pitseleh 4