Politics - 18 October 2007

Interspersed with ex-convicts who, while serving a prison sentence, converted to Islam and became an activist, does NPR schedule any programs that cast a positive light on America?

I've heard the news reported on the station but the shows seem to fit a pattern.

2007-10-18 03:52:06 · 20 answers · asked by Kubla Con 4

You'd have to wear a blue dress, and he'd have a cigar

2007-10-18 03:49:58 · 24 answers · asked by Spartacus 3

What do you think?

2007-10-18 03:44:50 · 18 answers · asked by Ron L 4

2007-10-18 03:43:50 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-10-18 03:36:07 · 6 answers · asked by ST 4

Why do they celebrate Putin for "standing up and speaking out" against Bush and our nation?

2007-10-18 03:34:28 · 5 answers · asked by Kubla Con 4

Have to wear a blue dress

2007-10-18 03:32:40 · 3 answers · asked by Spartacus 3

Have to wear a blue dress

2007-10-18 03:31:54 · 13 answers · asked by Spartacus 3

Greed motivates me, I dunno, would you don the blue dress for Nancy

2007-10-18 03:30:52 · 14 answers · asked by Spartacus 3

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/18/clinton_shows_femininity_to_court_key_constituency/
MANCHESTER, N.H. - Everywhere she goes, Hillary Clinton asks voters to help her make history as the first woman president.
Yet Clinton is increasingly portraying herself more as motherly and traditional than as trailblazing and feminist, sometimes playing up the differences between men and women.

2007-10-18 03:30:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

One dozen members of the Republican Party have announced that they've had enough. Is this a sign that real change is about to happen in the U.S., or will it be politics as usual after the '08 election?

2007-10-18 03:26:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

BOSTON - Sabrina Rahim doesn't practice any particular faith, but she had no problem signing a letter declaring that because of her deeply held religious beliefs, her 4-year-old son should be exempt from the vaccinations required to enter preschool.
But public health officials say it takes only a few people to cause an outbreak that can put large numbers of lives at risk.

"When you choose not to get a vaccine, you're not just making a choice for yourself, you're making a choice for the person sitting next to you," said Dr. Lance Rodewald, director of the CDC's Immunization Services Division.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071018/ap_on_re_us/vaccine_skeptics

2007-10-18 03:22:20 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

... the indians and did far too little for them.

Now, let's talk about Turkey's "genocide."

2007-10-18 03:18:44 · 9 answers · asked by junglejoe 2

(and they aren't expectant mothers)

2007-10-18 03:17:20 · 10 answers · asked by junglejoe 2

Why do the Dems refuse to require that 95% of poor kids receive insurance via SCHIP and other programs before they give money to insure richer kids?

States have only enrolled 2/3 of poor kids in insurance programs that they are entitled to. Why won't the Dems make sure that the truly needy are covered before giving money away to richer parents?

2007-10-18 03:16:10 · 7 answers · asked by junglejoe 2

2007-10-18 02:51:15 · 16 answers · asked by Richard V 6

Heard on the Michael Savage radio program last night that a noted DNA genetecist, Dr. James Watson, recently wrote a paper saying that blacks were less intelligent than whites. It should be noted that Dr. Watson won the Nobel Prize for his work in discovering the structure of DNA.

Now that he has come out with this politically incorrect paper, will the people of The Nobel Committee demand that he return his prize?

You can see the article on michaelsavage.com

2007-10-18 02:42:42 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just heard him say that we have the Second Amendment to protect ourselves and our land. And if necesary, it gives us the right to protect us from our government when it gets out of hand.

Of course that's true, but NO candidate ever says that outloud! Wow, I'm speechless. I like him! Finally, someone that might actually be on our side!

2007-10-18 02:31:01 · 13 answers · asked by smellyfoot ™ 7

2007-10-18 02:30:22 · 11 answers · asked by embryriddledab 2

funded them. it all backfired in the US' and pakistan's face in the form of al qaeda. has the american foreign policy changed since then? or is it like president Putin said: that the US is just after oil?

2007-10-18 02:25:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

All over the country hospitals are going out of business because they cannot afford to treat so many illegals.

St. Michael's Hospital in MILWAUKEE WI is one of them. CA and TX have more than us but even 1 is TOO MANY!

Milwaukee has a lot of illegals - this is a welfare state. We have a stupid Gov (Doyle) who wants to give free healthcare and college to illegals. IDIOT!

2007-10-18 02:23:40 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

With each passing election cycle, I'm becoming more and more convinced that political parties are ruining American government. It seems like when most people talk about politicians, there's an us vs. them mentality - meaning red vs. blue, democrat vs. republican. The lines in congress and in state government seem to mostly split along party lines. When it comes to voting, it seems like most people are choosing the guy from their own party because he's from their party rather than because he's the best guy for the job.

I'm not going to pretend I have an answer for this and I know that political parties have always been part of the system. It just feels like the split has become much more than just about philosophical ideas. And as a result I feel like everyone one is suffering.

2007-10-18 02:19:10 · 5 answers · asked by Justin H 7

White people wear me out, sometimes. .

Yeah, I'm a white person. That's why I hate it when some white people poison the well of race relations.

A jury of six white people in Panama City acquitted all eight people charged in the boot camp death of Martin Lee Anderson. It took them a scant 90 minutes to find nothing wrong in the beating death of a 14-year-old boy. They couldn't have deliberated too hard.

Yeah, I know the guards didn't do anything they hadn't done to other kids. Yeah, I know the state didn't present its case well. Yeah, I know a jury can't base its decisions on the race of the victims or the accused. Yeah, I know jury members didn't want to send any of their neighbors to jail for 30 years on aggravated manslaughter.

But a boy died in the care of those eight people. Somebody did something wrong - whether it was grown men punching a slight-built boy until he was unconscious or a nurse refusing to stop them when the boy had trouble breathing.

2007-10-18 02:18:22 · 19 answers · asked by Nyghtmare 2

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN1624620720071017?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

2007-10-18 02:17:38 · 18 answers · asked by Holy Cow! 7

To the contrary, many will be forced to pay for coverage even if

they don't want or need it to make her scheme work!

2007-10-18 02:03:44 · 22 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

It's funny but sad that once the President, his people, and his party started messing up EVERYTHING in and out of the U.S. (and falling apart internally) you all started making personal attacks on liberals as a group... Can't you just accept that you made a bad choice?

2007-10-18 02:02:33 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

…when only a measly 81 Democrats voted to give bush the authority that bush lied to them about?

2007-10-18 02:02:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-18 01:55:10 · 7 answers · asked by Jamika K 1

Hillary is endorsing taxpayer subsidized forced-private health care. Other Democrats want a Single Payer system. I've not heard any ideas from the right, other than Romney's state funded system.
The cold hard facts are that health care premiums are rising 6 to 9% a year. That's higher than the inflation rate and average wages. Every year, employers are letting employees foot more and more of that premium.
So what IS the answer. It's obvious that if we elect to do nothing at all, more and more Americans will be priced out of healthcare altogether - thus burdoning the high-middle and upper class with even higher premiums.
Your suggestions?

2007-10-18 01:53:31 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

if he imidiatly took us out of the the would colaps and alkida would take over again.

if you have forgoten dose the term 9/11 mean anything to you?

it means alot to me and the people i know who lost so much on that day.

oh and one more thing, have you ever actualy thought about what it took to be a president? if we wernt over there, he would catch crap for being to week, but becaus we are over there now he wants to take over the world. how dos that work?

2007-10-18 01:32:03 · 16 answers · asked by bob 2