Politics - 9 November 2007

Conservatives keep trying to make being a liberal a bad thing.

Why?

If it weren't for liberal thought and ideas humans would still be living quite primitavely.

It was a liberal thought that the Earth was round and that you wouldn't fall off the edge of the Earth if you sailed forward.

It was a liberal idea that the Earth revolves around the sun.

It was a liberal idea that man could blast off into outerspace and land on the moon.

What are all of you so afraid of?

2007-11-09 13:16:45 · 24 answers · asked by Kelly B 4

2007-11-09 13:12:09 · 22 answers · asked by xMusicx(L) 1

2007-11-09 13:09:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

What is a Limosine Liberal and could you please give me a well known example of one?

2007-11-09 12:46:16 · 2 answers · asked by JDH. 3

2007-11-09 12:31:16 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will patriotism preserve in western societies dwelled by masses of immigrants?

2007-11-09 12:30:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

i personally felt more secure then than now!

2007-11-09 12:16:07 · 21 answers · asked by macmanf4j 4

...or did they ever really exist?

2007-11-09 12:15:40 · 20 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4

Should we pass out condoms and birth control like candy? Should we get rid of all types of welfare? What's the solution? What should we do?

2007-11-09 12:14:26 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous

Answer: The industrial output of the United States.

Why then, given the obvious importance of domestic industry to national security, have we sold our industrial might to China?

2007-11-09 12:11:14 · 14 answers · asked by Bill L 1

I think the USA will win it hands down. This of course is not to say that this is going to be a good thing, only that America will be the one who comes out "victorious".

What say you?

2007-11-09 12:09:45 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just can't give these dollars away ;)

2007-11-09 12:06:07 · 8 answers · asked by . 5

What does Paul propose to do once they are brought home?

What do you think they should do?

***NOTE***
(if you do not think they should be brought home or you are not a Ron Paul supporter, I am clearly not asking for your opinion)

2007-11-09 11:59:52 · 15 answers · asked by Marcello 2

Will they riot?...Will they follow through will pre-election promises to leave the country? Will they say the election was stolen?

2007-11-09 11:52:47 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you had to choose between driving a dirt road with Laura Bush or being waterboarded--which would it be.

I gotta say waterboarding since everyone knows that Laura-behind-the-wheel is a weapon of mass destruction.

2007-11-09 11:45:09 · 14 answers · asked by Bill L 1

If your child was kidnapped and the kidnapper was in custody not telling the location of your child would you then approve of waterboarding or would you let your child die cause you want to be better then the kidnapper?

2007-11-09 11:36:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

We already have a deficit; owe money to foreign countries; in a war that's killing our citizens and we can't afford; the value of our currency is falling and the middleclass is in shambles.
Really, could another Republican make our situation much more worst than it already is?
A better question is; could any Democrat really help the situation?

2007-11-09 11:26:22 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 11:21:29 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bush has outsourced domestic spying to sweatshops full of Yeti's and aliens. Is this impeachable?

Tooth fairy and Easter Bunny blew up WTC.


I understand the chupacabra is no longer illegally crossing our southern border because of this high paying opportunity.

2007-11-09 11:20:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary has a LONG and well documented past of NOT telling the truth.
Why would a waitress LIE about not getting a tip from her?

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16143435
Morning Edition, November 9, 2007 · A waitress causes a stir on the political blogs. The waitress at a Maid-Rite restaurant in Iowa says she did not get a tip after serving presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, a Democrat from New York. But the Clinton campaign says a $100 tip was left at the diner.
"Why would I lie about not getting a tip?" she told NPR. She also maintained that her co-workers at the restaurant had not received tips.

Who do you believe?

2007-11-09 11:13:26 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 11:11:50 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

Should Rush Lay Off Hillary?

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, I'm a conservative and I want a Republican to be elected president in 2008. So I think you shouldn't be attacking Hillary Clinton quite so much, because if you continue to do this, she'll probably end up losing the Democratic nomination for president, then the Democrats will be able to run a more electable candidate for president, like Edwards or Obama, and that's bad news for Republicans. So please, Rush, please lay off Hillary a little bit.

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_110807/content/01125113.guest.html

2007-11-09 11:04:19 · 26 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

http://www.knbc.com/news/14551575/detail.html?dl=headlineclick

LOS ANGELES -- A plan by the LAPD counterterrorism bureau to create a map detailing the Muslim communities in that city was reported Friday to be angering civil rights groups.

At least three major Muslim groups and the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter yesterday to top city officials raising concerns about the plan, The New York Times reported.

2007-11-09 10:59:58 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 10:54:31 · 6 answers · asked by . 5

Is the a return to her power grabbing of the '90s that violated so many peoples civil rights?

2007-11-09 10:46:35 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 10:38:50 · 6 answers · asked by Choco 3

2007-11-09 10:38:35 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-09 10:37:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

“We have turned out the lights in the studio,” NBC’s Bob Costas told viewers of Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, “to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.” Discerning viewers with eyes keen enough to pierce the sanctimonious glare of Costas’s candlelit silhouette may have noticed that the stadium’s klieg lights still shone brightly.

On a typical game day, a large football stadium burns about 65,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 35,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The cars driving to the game spew about 200 metric tons of CO2 (and that assumes nobody’s driving SUVs or RVs, which is like assuming tailgaters are eating only sushi). There’s also the electricity used to broadcast the game and to watch it. But thank goodness Costas turned off the studio lights for a minute or two.

NBC’s “Green Week” continued apace (well after this writing). Morbidly obese contestants on The Biggest Loser lugged piles of recyclable cans up ramps and into enormous collection bins. Of course, the cans were delivered to the stunt by diesel truck. So a lot of energy — and sweat! — that could have been used toward fermenting homebrew tofu, or whatever energy is supposed to be used for, was wasted on viewer schadenfreude. The winners of the challenge each received a hybrid SUV. Alas, one of the winners didn’t own a car to begin with, so the net result was one more car on the road and a little more CO2 in the air.

On Days of Our Lives, a fictional couple had a fictionally “green” wedding.

The cast of The Today Show burned massive amounts of jet fuel sending its hosts to the corners of the globe, leaving a “carbon footprint” larger than those left near the recycle bin on The Biggest Loser.

I could go on, but you’ve seen the tyranny of Green even if you’ve never turned on NBC. Green is everywhere. Every magazine feels compelled to sell some sliced tree-meat in a special “green issue,” but they feel so guilty about it, they ditch their glossy paper for pulp that gives it the feel of a hemp-commune newsletter that doubles as sustainable toilet paper. Food magazines have replaced “delicious” with “sustainable” as the highest praise. “Green is the new black” according to fashion writers who at least think certain cliches never go out of style.

Now, the predictable response to my caterwauling is that I just don’t get it. Of course, Bob Costas’s Dickensian studio lighting is just so much symbolism. But, they respond, NBC is “raising consciousness” and promoting “awareness.” We’ve heard this tone before, perhaps starting in high school, when we were told, “If we all work together, we can make this the best yearbook ever!”

And that’s why, on top of all the other reasons, Green Week — and the Green Millennium it hopes to usher in — is so annoying. It plays us all for suckers. First of all, you have enormously rich people at fantastically wealthy corporations seeking grace on the cheap with a few symbolic gestures that come at absolutely no cost, and often considerable profit.

You do know that the parent company of NBC is General Electric, right? You do know that for GE, green is first and foremost the color of money, right? As Tim Carney explains in vivid detail in his wonderful book, The Big Ripoff, GE’s “ecomagination” campaign is simultaneously a way to brand itself as a “progressive” company and a means of shaking the money tree — the most sustainable planting of them all — growing in Congress’ backyard.

When the global company launched the ecomagination campaign, guess where it held the launch party? Its D.C. lobbying office, of course.

While sipping from wine made at a solar-powered winery, the head of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, proclaimed, “Industry cannot solve the problems of the world alone. We need to work in concert with government.” Translation: The King Kong of the corporate world needs tax breaks, subsidies and favorable regulations in order to make green technology profitable. Indeed, GE has nearly cornered the market on the solar panels necessary to implement Kyoto-style reforms. Global warming hysteria is good for its bottom line.

Liberals and environmentalists love to whine about special breaks for corporations, and they work themselves into paroxysms of paranoia about how big corporations propagandize against action on climate change. The reality is exactly the opposite. GE, DuPont, British Petroleum, and countless other big corporations routinely propagandize in the other direction, largely to win governmental support they don’t need. But so long as environmentalists approve of the message, they’ve got no problem whatsoever with the messengers.

For GE and Bob Costas alike, Kermit the Frog was a liar; it is easy being green.

2007-11-09 10:36:52 · 6 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

If I knew people were killing other people in the name of my religion I would be the the first one there to oppose them...Now I don't want any haten going on I just want a decent conversation and answers here....

2007-11-09 10:30:25 · 15 answers · asked by diva102288 4