Politics - 21 August 2007

isn't it?

2007-08-21 23:28:16 · 20 answers · asked by Your Teeth or Mine? 5

When I was teenager I used to be a communist (I'm embarrased to say:p) Though there is that saying.. that if are not a communist at 20, then you are heartless etc etc

Now I am quite centrist. Though I still try to be compasionite, I'm quite cynical. (Old age)


Are your views the same as they were when you were younger, or are their different? How and why?

2007-08-21 23:08:50 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous

if so, who? and why?

2007-08-21 23:08:39 · 12 answers · asked by Chelz 2

2007-08-21 22:41:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Some will say "he's got so much money, he doesn't need the pay cut" but it isn't about money. John Edwards is filthy rich. It's more about serving your country in a time of need, or in Bush's and Edwards' case a time of greed.
Why not Bill Cosby?

2007-08-21 22:38:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-21 22:23:20 · 6 answers · asked by whyareyouaPOSER 2

A new Gallup Poll finds Congress' approval rating the lowest it has been since Gallup first tracked public opinion of Congress with this measure in 1974. Just 18% of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing, while 76% disapprove, according to the August 13-16, 2007, Gallup Poll.

That 18% job approval rating matches the low recorded in March 1992, when a check-bouncing scandal was one of several scandals besetting Congress, leading many states to pass term limits measures for U.S. representatives (which the Supreme Court later declared unconstitutional). Congress had a similarly low 19% approval rating during the energy crisis in the summer of 1979.

See link - http://www.galluppoll.com/content/?ci=28456

Question - What are your thoughts ?

2007-08-21 21:46:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Martin Luther King surrounded himself with communists from the beginning of his career.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, formed in 1957 and led by Dr. King, also had as its vice president Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth who was at the same time president of the Southern Conference Education Fund, an identified communist front.

King maintained correspondence with Carl Braden (communist, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for sedition)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Braden

Also on the board of SCLC was Bayard Rustin (member of the Young Communist League)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin

In 1957, King addressed the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn. which was originally called Commonwealth College until it was sited by the House Committee on un-American Activities as being a communist front
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_College,_Arkansas

In 1960, King hired Hunter Pitts O’Dell (member of the Communist Party U.S.A ), to work at SCLC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Pitts_O%27Dell

According to the St Louis Globe Democrat (Oct. 26, 1962) “A Communist has infiltrated the top administrative post in the Rev. Martin Luther King’s SCLC"
http://christianparty.net/mlk.htm


It’s strikes me as sad that Dr. King, the most influential leader of the civil rights movement wasn’t an advocate of the capitalism that was already leading to such great economic strides amongst African-Americans in his day.

He sneered at “the profit motive” without explaining why African-Americans shouldn’t seek to profit to the best of their ability

Dr. King’s imperious stand toward his own people would stand in contrast to an advocacy of genuine freedom, the development of self-rule, self-sufficiency, private ownership, and the accumulation of capital resulting from achievement. Dr. King was not advocating the American system of free market capitalism.

Instead, he stood for a system that has stunted the growth of African-Americans as well as the rest of us.

2007-08-21 21:06:45 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I mean if you always have to lie or exaggerate to stay in a debate, dont you eventually at least to yourself say..hey something is wrong with my side of things. Do they then realize they are evil since they have to lie all the time, and just resign themselves to be evil lying smearing people?

2007-08-21 20:49:47 · 8 answers · asked by me 1

2007-08-21 20:44:50 · 6 answers · asked by bush l 1

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson

"Religions are all alike - founded upon fables and mythologies." - Thomas Jefferson

"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." - Thomas Jefferson

"In no instance have . . . the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people." - James Madison

" The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity." - John Adams

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches." - Benjamin Franklin

2007-08-21 19:27:18 · 19 answers · asked by Joey's Back 6

I am looking for a group/organization that deals with oppression of catholics in Northern Ireland and the people of Palestine. I know there is such a group based in Ireland but was wondering if there was one in London.
Thanks in advance.

2007-08-21 19:07:04 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-21 18:53:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Please state your party affiliation.

2007-08-21 18:38:23 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

With the current bumbling of this president why is it so difficult for some men to find it difficult to support a woman for president. Is it an ego thing? There is no doubt to my mind that many many woman do better in office than Bush and we could be still be respected through out the world.

2007-08-21 18:27:03 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-21 18:16:16 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

he has no shot at the nomination, but maybe a VP candidate, he was always my favorite of the second tier.

2007-08-21 18:13:38 · 11 answers · asked by asmith1022_2006 5

I think it can be a good thing. The cells do not have to be taken from the fetus, you can harvast the same cells in the umbilical cord. I think a lot could be done with Research provided by Stem Cells. It could cure diabetes and other ravaging diseases.

2007-08-21 17:58:33 · 20 answers · asked by Senator D*L*P™ 5

WHy? besides for the war on iraq. and i don't want to hear that he planned 911 or that he knew it was going to happen. the goverment or cia or what ever knew about the plans but they didn't know when where or what was going to happen. Be polite and i don't want i hate him ,or something like that

2007-08-21 17:57:34 · 21 answers · asked by lame Cakes 1

Think this will help?

2007-08-21 17:50:32 · 10 answers · asked by lilly4 6

~ only men willing to sacrifice themselves for the world can be trusted with the world
~a good government governs "invisibly" and is not meddlesome, like lungs: only when lungs are sick and unnatural does a person notice his breathing
~laws or rules actually mean that a country is not good, because when people are virtuous and in conformity with nature they do not need correction and restraint
~war is tragic, so even when it is necessary it should not be celebrated
~the best leader is a servant, the best master or governor puts himself below others.

2007-08-21 17:47:28 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seems to me that Bush is single-handedly re-starting the cold war. Quick question: WHY?

2007-08-21 17:46:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Neocons exist separated into two very distinct groups. The largest, group one, are the people below the 99th income percentile. They are religous and/or war-mongering blowhard lemmings who follow the second group; The second group is made up of the top one percent. They cut taxes for themselves, borrow trillions (second term pending), and their behavior is largely the subject of this blog. Of necessity, they pay Rove to pipe tabloid for the Rats. Lemmings rather. Whichever, they both work.

2007-08-21 17:37:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am guessing old milwaukee.

2007-08-21 17:32:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-21 17:30:12 · 2 answers · asked by mun 1

Libertarians have morality, reality, the laws of economics, and now even momentum on their side (thanks to a certain doctor from Texas who is running for president). They offer the obvious answers to each and every problem that we face. All competing ideological systems have been discredited (70% of America has rejected the Neo-Con argument for aggressive war and the Soviet Union collapsed, fulfilling the predictions of Ludwig von Mises that socialism was doomed to collapse because it cannot perform economic calculation due to not having a price system). When the liberals were supporting the march to war with Iraq and repeating the president's propaganda and talking points, the libertarians were opposed to the war and fighting to keep it from beginning and to end it once it started.

Is it now inevitable that libertarianism will eventually achieve a total victory?

2007-08-21 17:30:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/l...
After reading, I'm not sure. But what do you think?..It does make sense, but then again-*I am very doubtful.

2007-08-21 17:29:10 · 2 answers · asked by Cherryberry 1

Or are they as inept as they look to me?

2007-08-21 17:25:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-21 17:23:22 · 10 answers · asked by Page 4

Just in general I was curious.
I pesonally think he stinks, but I respect other opinions.

If you think he is a good president give some reasons, same for those who think he aint so great.

Thanks

2007-08-21 17:10:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous