Politics - 10 November 2007

Skinny Santa?
Santa Claus is being told to lose the jelly belly and set a healthier example for kids.

2007-11-10 16:21:36 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems to me that someone can do something about them taking advantage of the poor. Wake up Americans there stealing from us!

2007-11-10 16:18:31 · 11 answers · asked by lee 1

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pathetic situation? There's certainly enough US money flowing in Iraq. It's been over 5 years. Why haven't the Iraqi people got dependable electric service?

2007-11-10 16:06:43 · 9 answers · asked by rare2findd 6

2007-11-10 16:01:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

...Bin Laden if they win? Like what they're criticizing Bush for not doing?

2007-11-10 15:36:33 · 9 answers · asked by artiegordon 1

2007-11-10 15:30:14 · 16 answers · asked by artiegordon 1

Mukasey’s nomination is argued as the best we’re going to get from the Bush administration. We are asked to compromise better and worse in place of right and wrong. How many times in the past have people accepted a series of these same compromises until they have lost their way to become willing executioners? Wouldn't it be better to have a worse recess appointment than to have the US Senate give a nod to torture?

2007-11-10 15:18:18 · 2 answers · asked by Ron H 6

do you think is the most reprehensible of all?

1. Drinking and Driving

2. Smoking with 20 feet of another person

3. Teaching children religion before they are old enough to
discern fact from fiction.

4. Killing people in war or as punishment.

5. Treating animals as though they are less important than

human life forms..

2007-11-10 15:16:51 · 9 answers · asked by JiveMan 2

2007-11-10 15:10:51 · 5 answers · asked by R J 7

as answers come, i'll stick my response below:

2007-11-10 15:02:46 · 23 answers · asked by eragonsdragon101 1

Capitalism=inequality.
Do you feel the wage distrubition is just?
Do you feel that people should be slaves of those that control the capitol?
How is this fair?
Shouldn't we all be paid equally?

2007-11-10 14:41:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-10 14:38:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-10 14:26:09 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

meteorologist who founded The Weather Channel coming out and saying that Global Warming is one of the biggest hoaxes of our time?

2007-11-10 14:13:43 · 23 answers · asked by Cinner 7

i'm probably 4-5. you?

2007-11-10 13:55:57 · 35 answers · asked by Anonymous

The answer is very obvious (or at least to me it is), but I want everyone else to think about it. The U.S. is, and has been for many years, a threat to the rest of the world, usingexploitation and terrorism (if u don't believe me, look up latin america's tumultuous political history.) I am not cold-blooded or crazy, and I feel very sorry for those who died in 9-11, but as a country, we deserved it. The U.S. has a tendancy to exploit countries and their murderous leaders, use them for as long as possible then denounce them. As a country, the people of the U.S. must strive to educate themselves, and not simply believe the biases and lies of political leaders. I hate suppressive religios leaders who use religion as an excuse for their crimes, but I also hate this country's twisted foreign policy. The government also used the evnts of 9-11 to initiate an unjust war. (I hate saddam, but the war was not necessary.) almost 3,000 ppl died, and now the death toll is much higher.

2007-11-10 13:43:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you not like diversity??? do you want america be 100% white? why tell people who want to escape their homeland because of the corrupt gov they live under they can't come to a country that is free??? you know how many people want to come here and we reject them???

2007-11-10 13:40:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not talking about one horror story of one person in a story you read one nation or some story your friend told you...

I'm talking about using stats from many nations with socialized healthcare and comparing them to the U.S. stats... basically proving your statements with cited fact and equal comparison...

I don't think I've ever seen a conservative do this... yet they constantly talk about how horrible it is...

I would especially like to see comparisons between our system and the top socialized healthcare systems, like those in France and Scandinavia...

2007-11-10 13:37:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-10 13:37:04 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

Associated Press
Three days after his tough talk in a telephone conversation with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, President George Bush cited "positive steps" by the Pakistani head.

Standing beside visiting Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel at his Texas ranch, Bush said there was no need for him to speak to Musharraf again. "He knows my position," Bush said.

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humm
so. is there really "no need" or is it that Musharraf doesn't really care what Bush thinks anymore.

2007-11-10 13:31:42 · 3 answers · asked by rare2findd 6

It would be nice to have, but its just not a financial reality. take a look:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget,_2007

Medicare and Medicaid total almost 700 BILLION dollars worth of the federal budget. And that's just the federal budget, states pay for a large portion of medicaid so i bet its pushing $1 trillion dollars in goverment healthcare spending currently. And the programs only insure about 20% of our population. So we take 1 trillion X 4 to get the other 4/5ths of our population covered so youre looking at an increase of 3.5-4 trillion dollars (granted medicare is old and disabled people who use more healthcare, so its probably more like a 2-3 trillion increase) Anyway, were running a deficit right now of 500 billion per year. Where is the money going to come from to finance this?

2007-11-10 13:20:17 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why is Schumer promising not to raises taxes on the rich Wall Streeters?

How big of a donation will Schumer and Hillary get from the former CEOs of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch? Both of them destroyed thousands of American families with sub-prime mortgages that they knew could never be repayed.

Don't Dems care about average Americans? Do they just protect the super-rich donors?

Several weeks ago the Dems swore that they would raise taxes on private equity firms from Wall Street. But, the Dems have gotten millions of dollars in "donations" from Wall Streeters and have since change their minds. Sad? Sick?

2007-11-10 13:09:33 · 6 answers · asked by Duminos 2

2007-11-10 13:03:42 · 8 answers · asked by SithLord 4

Doesn't it seem like the Dems make everyone seem "needy"?

They want to bail out people who just 2 years ago bought $600,000 homes. And, many of them will likely qualify for the Dems "free healthcare" idea.

2007-11-10 13:00:27 · 13 answers · asked by Duminos 2

would you tatoo 666 in your forehead

2007-11-10 12:46:46 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-10 12:35:26 · 5 answers · asked by Scott K 2

Is that a good bumper sticker?

2007-11-10 12:28:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hillary has foot in mouth disease. This from the Liberal Politics guice at About.COM.
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[My comment]
In fine Clintonian politico form, Hillary dodged and
weaved innumerable questions with evasive answers and
obscuring responses. Edwards, Obama, Dodd and Biden
rightfully all accused her of political opportunism
and dishonesty. And they charged her with playing both
sides of the politcal street (i.e. taking both sides
of various issues).

While their accusations were mildly interesting, none
of their charges whacked the mole squarely on the
head. Instead, Hillary the mole whacked herself by
blurting out an immigration issue position 100%
contradictory to one she'd stated merely two minutes
earlier.
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And, there is a consensus of opinion (remember, consensus of opinion proved global warming, according to AlGore, and other Democrats). Even the ultra-liberal NY Times agreed she made a serious boo-boo.

2007-11-10 12:20:21 · 4 answers · asked by krazykyngekorny 4

For questioning our blind loyalty to the Zionist project and America's one-eyed view of Middle Eastern policy and the undue influence Israel has on our Foreign Policy?

I am NOT...

2007-11-10 12:18:21 · 20 answers · asked by Dream Realized 2

If the south, north, and west had made a compromise in 1860 before the Civil War, could the Civil War have been avoided? Was there a way to appease all regions that no one considered at the time?

2007-11-10 12:11:02 · 12 answers · asked by ....................... 1