Politics - 20 September 2007

Why is the Canadian dollar now at least at par with the American dollar, while forcast to be stronger yet in the foreseeable future? Do Canadians owe Bush a big hug for being such an inept President?

2007-09-20 14:35:35 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 14:30:11 · 24 answers · asked by tomtom 6

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09202007/news/regionalnews/just_shove_your_wreath.htm

2007-09-20 14:26:06 · 12 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Oh wait they are hearing in on Larry Craig, the republican from Alaska when you have a big story here from the democrats.

2007-09-20 14:22:26 · 6 answers · asked by Jeremy P 2

Everywhere you look there is someone talking about going Green. T-shirts, TV, etc... Is it that everyone really cares all of a sudden? Or that Hollywood & Oprah have started a trend?

2007-09-20 14:22:04 · 8 answers · asked by semantic_spaces 3

or will there still be this problem with reality that keeps causing him such difficulties?

2007-09-20 14:16:24 · 10 answers · asked by easy_game_101 2

That kid should've had bean balls shot at him. He was out of control. Regardless of political affiliation, he was given a lot of chances to behave himself, and he only got more and more out of control. He wasn't even what you'd call a crazy liberal, he was just CRAZY.

I don't feel sorry for him, really! Anyhow, I bet the Secret Service has put him on their lists after his rant!

2007-09-20 14:14:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 14:06:34 · 26 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

The kid who was tasered by the campus police was tasered because he was being physically and vocally disruptive.

So here's my question: Do you also stick up for the freedom of speech of the people who shout out at Ann Coulter's speeches and throw pies at her, or do you only think there should be no rules for Republicans who disrupt speeches on college campuses?

2007-09-20 14:02:15 · 26 answers · asked by Bush Invented the Google 6

It was Clinton's military that made quick work of conquering Afghanistan.

2007-09-20 13:45:41 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous

I bid one billion for such and such government program.

I bid two billion and so on. And you know it is your money they are trying to buy votes with.

2007-09-20 13:44:56 · 6 answers · asked by Locutus1of1 5

2007-09-20 13:41:46 · 15 answers · asked by prancinglion 5

have everything while theres people hungry and cold, should goverment be forced with the rich to take care of another human being before his faces Jesus or even worse his father. do you want to take that chance

2007-09-20 13:40:00 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you have, where is there mention of cost controls? I believe I missed that. Certainly she must have considered price controls. Without it, extending coverage just like giving a blank check to patients and providers which would drive even higher the share of our economy that goes to health care (which is now 16%). Even Bill Clinton stated in 1993 if health care costs went above 12% it would be an economic disaster! And of course if she doesn't limit utilization and consider costs, she would be forced to RATION health care and to impose government mandated and controlled managed care on all Americans.

2007-09-20 13:39:52 · 7 answers · asked by Cherie 6

Am I in the Twilight Zone or what? The Clinton Team weighing in on MARRIAGE...this is not right.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/09/20/2007-09-20_top_hillary_clinton_backer_rips_rudy_giu.html?ref=rss

2007-09-20 13:36:17 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 13:25:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-20 13:22:23 · 5 answers · asked by John 2

Woman sacked for revealing UN links with sex trade
By Daniel McGrory
How a tribunal vindicated an investigator who blew whistle on workers in Bosnia



A DAMNING dossier sent by Kathryn Bolkovac to her employers, detailing UN workers’ involvement in the sex trade in Bosnia, cost the American her job with the international police force.
She was sacked after disclosing that UN peacekeepers went to nightclubs where girls as young as 15 were forced to dance naked and have sex with customers, and that UN personnel and international aid workers were linked to prostitution rings in the Balkans.

After a two-year battle, an employment tribunal ruled yesterday that Ms Bolkovac was unfairly dismissed by DynCorp, an American company whose branch in Salisbury, Wiltshire, dealt with the contracts of the American officers working for the international police force in Bosnia. There will be a further hearing at Southampton to decide the amount of compensation DynCorp must pay Ms Bolkovac.

During her time in Bosnia as an investigator, Ms Bolkovac, 41, uncovered evidence of girls who refused to have sex being beaten and raped in bars by their pimps while peacekeepers stood and watched. She discovered that one UN policeman who was supposed to be investigating the sex trade paid £700 to a bar owner for an underage girl who he kept captive in his apartment to use in his own prostitution racket.

She detailed her findings in a series of explicit e-mails to DynCorp, but after first being demoted and transferred from the investigation she was sacked for allegedly falsifying her timekeeping records.

Charles Twiss, the tribunal chairman, said: “We have considered DynCorp’s explanation of why they dismissed her and find it completely unbelievable. There is no doubt whatever that the reason for her dismissal was that she made a protected disclosure and was unfairly dismissed.”

There are powerful voices in support of her claims, including that of Madeleine Rees, the head of the UN Human Rights Commission office in Sarajevo, who is in no doubt that trafficking in women started with the arrival of the international peacekeepers in 1992.

As well as 21,000 Nato peacekeepers and aid workers, there were police from 40 countries trying to keep Bosnia’s warring factions apart.

“When the civil war ended in 1992 there were curfews and ordinary people didn’t have cars or money,” Ms Rees said. “Only the international community would have been able to get to the flats and bars being made available with foreign women.” She estimates that there are more than 900 premises in Bosnia where sex can be bought.

Richard Monk, a former senior British policeman who ran the UN police operation in Bosnia until 1999, said: “There were truly dreadful things going on by UN police officers from a number of countries. I found it incredible that I had to set up an internal affairs department to investigate complaints that officers were having sex with minors and prostitutes.

“The British officers were on the whole extremely good and very professional, setting a great example. But there were policemen from other countries who should not have been in uniform.”

The tribunal was told that a senior UN official, Dennis Laducer, was caught in one of the most notorious brothels. Mr Laducer, Deputy Commissioner of the International Police Task Force, was investigated by UN human rights officers and is no longer with the mission.

The ruling yesterday will cause further embarrassment to the UN over the behaviour of its peacekeepers. In March investigators disclosed that British aid workers and the UN contingent in Sierra Leone were demanding sex from teenage refugees in exchange for food and money. The UN’s refugee agency, which carried out the inquiry, told of “a shameful catalogue of sexual abuse”.

Ms Bolkovac, a mother of three who now lives in The Netherlands, said that she was elated by the tribunal’s ruling. “Now I hope to gain more international exposure for this problem,” she said.

She was posted to Sarajevo in 1999 to investigate the traffic in young women from Eastern Europe. “When I started collecting evidence from the victims of sex-trafficking, it was clear that a number of UN officers were involved from several countries, including quite a few from Britain,” she said. “I was shocked, appalled and disgusted. They were supposed to be over there to help, but they were committing crimes themselves. But when I told the supervisors they didn’t want to know”. Two Britons, a UN peacekeeper and a policeman, have been sent home after allegations involving the sex trade. Both are being investigated.

Ms Bolkovac said that she witnessed frightened young women given exotic dance costumes by club owners, who told them they had to perform sex acts on customers, including UN personnel, to pay for the outfits.

“The women who refused were locked in rooms and food and outside contact was withheld for days or weeks. After this time they were told to dance naked on table tops and sit with clients, recommending the person buy a bottle of champagne for DM200, which includes a room and ‘escort’.

“If the women still refuse to perform sex acts with the customers, they are beaten and raped in the rooms by the bar owners and their associates. They are told if they go to the police they will be arrested for prostitution and being an illegal immigrant.”

Within days of reporting her findings in October 2000 she was demoted and six months later was sacked. She claimed that DynCorp wanted her removed because her work was threatening its “lucrative contract” to supply officers to the UN mission. DynCorp said that she was dismissed for gross misconduct. During the hearing DynCorp admitted that it had dismissed three officers for using prostitutes. Since 1998, eight DynCorp employees have been sent home from Bosnia; none has been prosecuted.

2007-09-20 13:20:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

for 5 years (illegally). Hillary speaks stopping health insurance companies from raising premiums on those who are sick. But she does not mention the flip side — it will raise premiums on those who are well. On the one hand, she would cover all those with chronic conditions with low cost health insurance and, at the expense of the healthy. The net effect would be a major increase in health insurance premiums for the vast majority of Americans. Do you really believe in coercing American's who do NOT WANT health insurance to pay for it so the illegals who flaunt our laws can get free health care?

2007-09-20 13:14:03 · 21 answers · asked by Cherie 6

Those who voted to support MoveOn's smear:

NAYs ---25

Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Romney said it best:
"Hillary Clinton had a choice. She could stand with our troop commander in Iraq, or she could stand with the libelous left wing of her party. She chose the latter. The idea that she would be a credible commander-in-chief of our armed forces requires the willing suspension of disbelief."

2007-09-20 13:10:38 · 31 answers · asked by charbatch 3

2007-09-20 13:07:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is hypothetical.

2007-09-20 12:58:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

...and you actually like some of the other people that are on here all day everyday, even though you fuss and fight, does this mean that you have always enjoyed being part of a dysfunctional family?

2007-09-20 12:53:23 · 16 answers · asked by Granny Gruntz 3

2007-09-20 12:46:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

'The charities were part of an extraordinary $70 billion Saudi campaign to spread their fundamentalist Wahhabi sect worldwide. The money helped lay the foundation for hundreds of radical mosques, schools, and Islamic centers that have acted as support networks for the jihad movement, officials say.

U.S. intelligence officials knew about Saudi Arabia's role in funding terrorism by 1996, yet for years Washington did almost nothing to stop it. Examining the Saudi role in terrorism, a senior intelligence analyst says, was "virtually taboo." Even after the embassy bombings in Africa, moves by counterterrorism officials to act against the Saudis were repeatedly rebuffed by senior staff at the State Department and elsewhere who felt that other foreign policy interests outweighed fighting terrorism.' (US News and World Report)

2007-09-20 12:45:52 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you round up all the illegals and ship em back to where they came from that would save millions of gallons of gas in the U.S. a year, right?

2007-09-20 12:44:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I guess he also proves the point that anybody can get elected to office, even lunatics. What a waste of the courts time, and taxpayers hard earned money.

How say you?

http://www.mail.com/Article.aspx?articlepath=APNews\Top%20Headlines\20070920\ODD_Suing_God_20070920.xml&cat=topheadlines&subcat=&pageid=1

2007-09-20 12:44:17 · 3 answers · asked by guyin559 2

for accusing marines of murders they didnt commit?

when i become good looking and get a tan and get my eyes fixed?

2007-09-20 12:43:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

or possibly war?
With France recently calling for more sanctions and warning of a possible war with Iran, what are your thoughts?

Sanctions in Iraq killed more than 1 million Iraqi children during the Clinton administration -according to UN estimates- and is cited by Bin Laden as one of the reasons for 911.

Do you support sanctions, or should we join the EU and go to war?

2007-09-20 12:36:19 · 13 answers · asked by charbatch 3

Iran pledged to deliver a "final reponse" to the U.S and other supporters of Israel during a religious ceremony next month, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday.

Iranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said the message would be sent on Qods Day, held each year on the last Friday of Ramadan, and would arrive during a visit to the Palestinian territories by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Click here to read IRNA report.

"The US loses all opportunities to cooperate with regional and other world states by trying to support a regime (the Zionist regime) which is now at its weakest political and social position," Elham said according to IRNA.

Qods Day falls on October 12 this year.

2007-09-20 12:30:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous