Politics - 20 October 2007

Louisiana makes a huge statement about Democrat incompetence by electing a Republican Gov.

http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=071021&cat=news&st=newsd8sdhqhg1&src=ap

2007-10-20 23:56:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplophobia

2007-10-20 23:54:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-20 23:20:52 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

while bringing in millions of guest workers from our southern neighbors and elsewhere do work for such dirt cheap wages that those americans who still have jobs have their wages depressed even further...or lose their jobs? and why would such an elected leader not want to spend of a dime of tax payer money on his constituents and would rather give it away overseas?

2007-10-20 22:35:52 · 6 answers · asked by ningis n 1

It's like...

have they even been paying attention?

2007-10-20 21:53:01 · 24 answers · asked by wider scope 7

This is America@!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071021/ap_on_el_gu/louisiana_governor

2007-10-20 21:52:48 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

"A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest-at the command — of his head. "
- Radio Address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum, October 26th, 1939
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15828

2007-10-20 21:25:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Because Churchill was a member of the Conservative Party at the naive age of 25 and a member of the Liberal Party at age 35.

STRAIGHT FROM THE CHURCHILL CENTRE

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 25 and a Liberal at 35! and would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal.
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid

2007-10-20 21:24:03 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think they are... I guess my question really is, what can the majority of Americans do about this disastrous influence on the way their country is run?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_jones

If you can, try and watch the film "Jonestown: Paradise Lost"... see if you can't see any similarity between the zealots who followed Jones to the end, and those who continue to go to bat for George Bush, despite his proven crimes, lies, and the obvious harm he has done to America and the world.

2007-10-20 21:16:51 · 12 answers · asked by dontknow772002 3

2007-10-20 20:24:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

If so, why do they want people to act Christian about welfare?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqWXYdEGrndUTfB0zsp9g0_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071020213937AAnrHg9&show=7#profile-info-6549f62618a0063b85e5155bb6f6d791aa

2007-10-20 19:19:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

the character Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (played by Sterling Hayden) in the film...

they always seem to be so concerned about the communists/socialists... beyond the point of paranoia...

I'm just waiting for one to post about how Hillary is trying to 'sap and impurify' their 'precious bodily fluids'... reading some of their posts... it's about a month away apparently for some...

2007-10-20 18:58:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-20 18:08:23 · 20 answers · asked by AmericanPatriot 3

2007-10-20 17:53:18 · 20 answers · asked by engot 2

If so, I'd like to hear your reasons.

2007-10-20 17:48:33 · 17 answers · asked by JD 4

"I hate the war!"

"Well stop it."

"I can't. The dog ate my homework..." "Also, I might not get reelected"

2007-10-20 17:42:09 · 10 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

2007-10-20 17:37:38 · 11 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

The hard data on babies around the Western world is that they're running out. "Replacement" fertility rate--i.e., the number you need for merely a stable population, not getting any bigger, not getting any smaller--is 2.1 babies per woman. Some countries are well above that: the global fertility leader, Somalia, is 6.91, Niger 6.83, Afghanistan 6.78, Yemen 6.75. Notice what those nations have in common? Islam!!!!!!!!

Scroll way down to the bottom of the Hot One Hundred top breeders and you'll eventually find the United States, hovering just at replacement rate with 2.07 births per woman. But Canada's fertility rate is down to 1.5, well below replacement rate; Germany and Austria are at 1.3, the brink of the death spiral; Russia and Italy are at 1.2; Spain 1.1, about half replacement rate.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1550345/posts

2007-10-20 17:37:20 · 28 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4

I will agree with all the gun nuts that we must be allowed to have guns, when they agree to abolish our standing army.

2007-10-20 17:33:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

Are those the only two possibilities and if so, how meaningless will that render the concept of anti-semitism?

Does that mean that the Neo-Nazi who wants to kill all Jews is no different morally than, say, an American who doesn't want his tax dollars being used to kill more families in Gaza?

2007-10-20 17:29:45 · 13 answers · asked by Bella Bruda 1

2007-10-20 17:23:24 · 15 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

http://www.stopbigmedia.com:80/=whackamurdoch

Rupert Murdoch's media empire already includes the Fox Television, Fox News Channel, a maze of cable networks, radio stations, hundreds of newspapers around the world, and even Internet sites like MySpace. Recently, he gobbled up the Wall Street Journal and launched the Fox Business Network.
The media are our prime source of news and information. When we let a few giant conglomerates control so many outlets, quality journalism turns into junk media, and our democracy suffers.

Check this out:
http://www.stopbigmedia.com:80/=whackamurdoch

2007-10-20 17:18:36 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-20 17:15:43 · 9 answers · asked by mrlebowski99 6

2007-10-20 17:02:21 · 9 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

They're right next to the Russians we hate!!! And they have all the herring we love!!

2007-10-20 16:54:50 · 12 answers · asked by captain_koyk 5

Democrats campaigning in 2006 said if they got control of the house they would;

Impeach Bush
Get rid of the Wire Taps and Patriot Act
Challenge the 'Illegal' War and Make Cheney Testify
End the War and Bring the Troops Home

Were these voters 'Koolaide Drinkers' or did they actually believe the democrats would deliever on thier promises?

2007-10-20 16:50:13 · 26 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4

1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) "(We)...can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground."

A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."

A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4 /2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005

2007-10-20 16:39:30 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-20 16:35:04 · 17 answers · asked by Darth Nihilus 5

For me it was 1992. I wasn't of age to vote in the primary, so it was the main election in November.

2007-10-20 16:33:06 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why? Please, this will really help me with a speech im writing.

2007-10-20 16:00:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous