Politics - 17 August 2007

I made one angry the other day when I said

"Martyr is just a fancy name for Sh!tty Fighter"

He reported me.

Is that really offensive? I thought it was funny.....

2007-08-17 07:18:30 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 07:16:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 07:16:31 · 17 answers · asked by Triumph 4

Can we please promise to keep Politics out of this one ?

Many towns in Texas have been inundated with rain this year . Many towns already have more than a 17 inch surplus of rain and some even as bad as a 30 inch surplus . Houston and San Antonio among them . IF this hurricane makes a direct hit(or even close to a direct hit) on Texas , there will be widespread disaster .

As a country , a people, and as Americans , we must not play Politics with disasters anymore . This is not a political blame game .

Do You Agree To Keep Politics Out Of Natural Disasters ?


BTW , Texans -- Tell us what you think too .

2007-08-17 07:12:47 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 07:08:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

For the sake of this discussion, I will assume that humans are not a factor in global warming.

Can you tell me why we should not have laws on the books limiting the amount of greenhouse gases anyway?

People often say that the earth's climate is too complex for us to understand. Then shouldn't we do our best to limit our effect on the environment? If don't understand what we are doing to the climate, wouldn't it be best to reduce our contribution of any particular type of gas to the atmosphere?

For example, what if we increased water in the atmosphere from <1% to 3%? Do you know what would happen?

Why don't we say that the composition of the Earth's atmosphere is x and human activity should not alter it by more than y%?

I just don't understand why people are seemingly in favor of polluting the environment. Pollute in this case meaning to make less pure.

2007-08-17 07:04:31 · 9 answers · asked by ? 5

Do you think it's the result of the debates? His naive foreign policy statements? She just keeps gaining ground. Is there anything Obama can do to stop the Hillary Clinton freight train?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state...

CA: 49% to 19%
FL: 41% to 18%
Michigan: 32% to 16%
New Jersey: 46% to 20%
Nevada: 33% to 19%
NH: 33% to 24%

In two states, Iowa and SC, she is ahead, but only by the margin of error.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/...

2007-08-17 07:00:08 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 06:52:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ted Kennedy was asked last Month if he remembers EVER a President that was so Bashed by the opposing party..he said honestly no. People that have gone wayyy off the scale Bashing this President must realize that the Dems have a 50% chance to win in 08...don't they know millions are just waiting for revenge against the man or woman that wins. These people haven't attacked a President...they have lowered the "OFFICE" of the President. When Miceal Moore was confronted by Barbra Bush at the republican national convention and she walked up to him and said: you should be ashamed of yourself young man for lying about my son...Moore smuggly said: it's just politics lady! We never bashed Clinton 10% of what Bush has endured from you. YES..it's a free country and YES you can say what you want..YES I know you hate the war and every policy Bush has endorsed...I really hope your proud of yourselfs..remember Dems rulke congress and you might win in 08....Holy Hell is about to RAIN down on you

2007-08-17 06:34:22 · 30 answers · asked by LoveUSA 2

bound to become number 2 in economy, and power etc....But I think the US will still be the cultural #1 on the world.. China is good but I don't think it will be a trendsetter

2007-08-17 06:32:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Serious answers please.

2007-08-17 06:15:34 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is a serious question and it has nothing to do with LIBS/CONS (believe me I have been reported by both of you guys). I get violation notices for responding to very abrasive questions where the questioner is not, in any way, trying to understand another person's viewpoint... Sometimes I get sarcastic but never in any way do I use offensive language... the worst that I did was type out "YAWN" to a question and asked the questioner to define the term he was discussing (this was reported and I got a violatiion notice... that was it).

Does Yahoo automatically send out violation notices without even seeing the answer (and question) reported by average users? It seems that way but I don't know because when I asked Yahoo I never got a response.

I wish that I didnt have to put this question here but Yahoo has never responded. I am not whining, I am just really curious and am wondering if other people actually know the answer to this... or if they are as baffled as me.

2007-08-17 06:13:39 · 7 answers · asked by cattledog 7

2007-08-17 06:12:11 · 5 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

We all know that the congress almost unamiously voted for the war in Iraq and we all know that everyone in government was telling us the WMD story for years before Bush was in office so it doesn't seem right to me to blame him 100% for the war. I'm hard pressed to see anything else he has done poorly. I mean the economy is doing very well, we haven't been attacked on US soil since 9/11 and our schools are showing marked improvement. I just don't understand why people hate this guy. Yesterday I asked a similiar question and all I got was a bunch of nut cases talking about foolish things like "he was behind 9/11" or "he went AWOL 50 years ago" or "he is spying on us" (as if anyone calling over seas EVER had an expectation of privacy or as if congress hasn't repreatedly approved of these programs and indeed CREATED the patriot act) So if you have a lagitimate grip about the guy not wild interenet theories I like to hear about it.

2007-08-17 06:07:30 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 05:57:12 · 27 answers · asked by pot roast 1

2007-08-17 05:55:08 · 46 answers · asked by Dude #2369™ 4

Probably be a REQUIREMENT to have one to "assert their individuality". Garaunteed.

2007-08-17 05:53:40 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

The erosion of community is the anxiety of the age.

2007-08-17 05:52:52 · 13 answers · asked by sdev006 2

Can we see that a graduated income tax with high marginal rates enlarges the client base and reduces the funding base for a welfare state? Can we see that for a welfare state to work, you have to have a small minority client base and a large class of people who are financially well off enough to be able to fund it?

Politically many of the payors might resent it, and if there aren't enough people dependent on the system to form a majority, you aren't guaranteed that the system will continue to be voted into place - - - but have we forgotten the lessons of the 1970s, when the system worked politically but not financially and it all came crumbling down?

High marginal rates were the govt kicking you 7 steps back for every 10 steps you could - you couldn't get ahead. Do we deny that the increase in the proportion of our population that is affluent is due to lowering the marginal tax rates, enabling more people to get ahead?

2007-08-17 05:50:53 · 6 answers · asked by truthisback 3

We could round the perpetual able bodied recipients of welfare and host what I would call “Monday Night Gladiators”. This would be where teams would battle for our tax dollars. The winners would stay on welfare and the losers would go into forced labor. What do you think any ideas, ways to make it better?

2007-08-17 05:34:53 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhtJMDEziKnrRbaAvffgyHbsy6IX?qid=20070817070946AAkVg71

Yes we have less of a welfare state than we did before - though the top two candidates from one party have long opposed the policy shifts that have led to this result.

What we've done is reversed the vicious cycle - - the government's game of musical chairs with jobs - - taking the dollar I would have spent on a widget or invested in ACME widget company, funneling it through a bureaucracy that employs some campaign staffer's brother-in-law and then doling out 25 cents six months later to some guy who used to be on the 3rd shift at ACME when ACME had a third shift, which it would still have if people like me had bought those widgets.

But in the long run, financially, to maintain a welfare state, doesn't it need to be the case that most people aren't clients or potential clients - are well off enough to support a welfare state for a small minority?

2007-08-17 05:30:28 · 4 answers · asked by truthisback 3

2007-08-17 05:26:33 · 20 answers · asked by pot roast 1

she said "I have the experience to stand up to the Bushies and do whats right for America"......Bush is not running and can not run again.

2007-08-17 05:21:17 · 12 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-08-17 05:15:26 · 10 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5

2007-08-17 05:12:00 · 11 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5

A lot of people have asked if Barack Obama is black enough to get support from black voters.But I think a much better question is this "Is Rudy Giuliani to ethnic to get the Republican nomination & to be elected president?"Because every president in the history of the United States has been a White man of Northern European descent.And we have only had 1 Catholic president.Rudy Giuliani is a socially liberal Italian-Catholic from New York.Do you think his ethnicity could hurt him with some Rebublican primary voters?Or with American voters in general if he gets the nomination for president?

2007-08-17 05:09:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-17 05:08:50 · 12 answers · asked by Joe 3

...if so,what might be their agenda with the country?

2007-08-17 05:08:39 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems to me that a lot of people on the Left, mostly the followers of guys like Michael Moore, take the issue of terrorism as a joke. Why? It's an important topic. This isn't a left or right issue, it's an issue of protection of the United States of America. Am I wrong here?

I'll lay my cards out on the table and I'm a Conservative. But how come we can't communicate with people on both sides of the aisle? I'm always willing to listen to the ideas on the Left but it doesn't seem the Left want to hear the ideas of ppl on the Right. Why?

2007-08-17 04:57:59 · 27 answers · asked by Austrian Theorist 4

Can we see how opposing the welfare state doesn't mean you hate poor people - doesn't even necessarily mean you don't want to give to poor people voluntarily?

Can we see how the government's just taking your property to "give" to one cause, whatever you might think of it, sets a precedent for the government's just taking it to do anything else it wants - like build bridges to nowhere?

Can we see how the government's enforcement of what some people see as a moral obligation to feed the poor sets a precedent for the government's enforcement of what other people think are our moral obligations, such as heterosexuality and certain religious beliefs?

2007-08-17 04:57:53 · 7 answers · asked by truthisback 3