Politics - 31 October 2007

Westboro Baptist Church liable for invasion of privacy, intent to inflict emotional distress
http://www.southernvoice.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=15038

2007-10-31 11:44:59 · 15 answers · asked by St. Tom Cruise 3

I am old enough to have had friends and relatives murdered in WWII. Now I listen to Nazis on national television stating openly that they hate Democrats and Republicans and Democracy. They claim that they support the middle class. Just like Hitler did. The Germans weren't stupid, neither are US citizens. Please be careful.

2007-10-31 11:39:33 · 8 answers · asked by waynesworldstage 2

I want your opinion.

2007-10-31 11:38:38 · 48 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

2007-10-31 11:34:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My family (at least my dad's side) is strongly republican. I used to be the same way in high school. I joined the army, did my time, then came back and got a college degree. Now I'm in grad school. My family wonders where I got all this liberalism, even though I never really considered myself a democrat. The important issues for me are:
1. health care - why should so many people not have it? Insurance is really high - mine is $250 a month for just ME. That's absurd. God help me when I have a family, which I'm working on. I would pay more tax for a fairer system
2. Iraq - I've been there, it goes from mess to fragile to mess. The only way to keep it stable is with a LOT of troops - the army can't handle it forever.
3. Education: the reason our kids don't learn is because there's a minority of good teachers. The good students in college decline to teach because there's no incentive. I'm working on being a teacher, and people think I'm wasting my time.

2007-10-31 11:34:40 · 26 answers · asked by redguard572001 2

Great!!! Now move there!!!

2007-10-31 11:32:09 · 56 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 11:26:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im not exactly sure how its set up there but is someone making money off every incarcerated prisoner.
And if so isnt it suspicious that america has much more of its population incarcerated vs. other developed nations?

maybe freedom does pay after all.. depends on the flip of the coin

2007-10-31 11:25:38 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Iran's leader calls for purge of liberal professors?

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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Tuesday for a purge of liberal and secular teachers from the country's universities, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported in another step back to 1980s-style radicalism.

Earlier this year, Iran retired dozens of liberal university professors and teachers. And last November, Ahmadinejad's administration for the first time named a cleric to head the country's oldest university in Tehran amid protests by students over the appointment.

In the early 1980s, shortly after the revolution, Iran sacked hundreds of liberal and leftist university teachers and students.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14676069/

2007-10-31 11:19:44 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

"3 guilty of mass murder in Madrid attack"

Spain's National Court convicted the three main suspects in the Madrid commuter train bombings of mass murder Wednesday and sentenced them to tens of thousands of years in prison for Europe's worst Islamic terror attack.

Under Spanish law, the most they will spend in jail is 40 years. Spain has no death penalty or life imprisonment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071031/ap_on_re_eu/spain_terror_trial

2007-10-31 11:14:52 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've found lib girls are much easier

2007-10-31 11:14:31 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should it be regulated and taxed like tobacco and alcohol for the good of the country?

It would sure put alot of petty drug dealers out of business and take a bite on the number of nonviolent Americans going to prison.

2007-10-31 11:12:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

And do you believe they do?

2007-10-31 11:11:58 · 21 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/thefirecache/8555.html

2007-10-31 11:09:40 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 11:03:15 · 18 answers · asked by realitycheck 3

An article mentioned that she has been a "punching bag" for Obama, Edwards, etc.

2007-10-31 11:01:45 · 10 answers · asked by How Big is Your Govt Check 3

2007-10-31 10:45:28 · 11 answers · asked by NONAME 1

2007-10-31 10:42:46 · 20 answers · asked by Liberal City 6

2007-10-31 10:40:15 · 4 answers · asked by GargVK 7

One of the reasons liberal viewpoints are disregarded and ridiculed is the extent to which they're assumed to be inextricably connected to the Democratic Party. Likewise, conservative viewpoints are often invalidated based on the assumption that conservative=Republican.

Truthfully, I think Democrats pretend to be liberal, and Republicans pretend to be conservative, for voting purposes, making empty appeals at "truth" or "public good" or "individual liberty," which they universally claim to value.

Please speak up if you tend to have either a liberal viewpoint or a conservative one, and yet tend to dissociate yourself from any political party. As a self-proclaimed independent liberal thinker, I believe I have more in common with real conservatives than Democrats or Republicans. I'm interested to see if there are others around here like myself.

Thanks.

2007-10-31 10:36:39 · 9 answers · asked by Buying is Voting 7

I know, I know, this is not something that has anything to do with political ideology, or part. And it is unfair to pick on republicans in any way based on the actions of one person. But it is too funny that this keeps happening to Republicans.

http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_103107WAB_curtis_resignation_LJ.1c5c1238f.html

It is even funny that he was going to spend $1000 for sex. Isn't that typical of Republicans? Gross overspending?

2007-10-31 10:22:27 · 21 answers · asked by Take it from Toby 7

2007-10-31 10:18:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

This had to do with military funerals and people using those funerals to say the soldiers deserve to die because they support a country that supports homosexuality. The question. Are christian fundies in this country just as dangerous as muslim extremists?

2007-10-31 10:18:20 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

to cover that UNinsured vet?

2007-10-31 10:16:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 10:01:02 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 10:00:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-31 09:59:33 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

of the 2 parties would you say does more wasteful spending?
The Dems with their domestic programs to help people (welfare, education, social programs...) or the Reps. spending (on whatever you choose to say they spend mostly on)???
Which party has truly thrown away more money and how?

2007-10-31 09:58:31 · 5 answers · asked by topink 6

I've got to know. I've been told by many that my frustration with people who don't believe that Al-Qaeda is a real threat comes from my "insider status" and knowing things about Al-Qaeda that the average citizen does not. I'd be able to stomach that, but I think that the attitude of the American public is directly related to our failure to think critically, conduct reasonable research, and our obsession with partisan politics.
Folks, make no mistake, these folks are trying to kill us and kill our way of life. They seek to build an Islamist Caliphate whose captial would be Baghdad, and from there oppress us all. I'm unloading no secrets. Look it up for yourself. They seek our annihilation. Our goal is to stop this from happening, however the adversary has launched an information campaign that keeps Americans arguing over partisan issues and who should have done what and when. We need to stand together as a country under one flag and fight together for the survival of our way of life.

2007-10-31 09:58:23 · 6 answers · asked by Kitten S 3

2007-10-31 09:53:44 · 1 answers · asked by GargVK 7