Politics - 9 December 2007

2007-12-09 14:51:20 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

people dont seem to believe that therewere 90,000 to 100,000 black confederates? did theunion really have the moral advantage? i dont

http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/1163/black.html
http://www.blackconfederates.com/
i dont get why history tries to cover the good things about the south. and jjust say good about the North. its unfair for southerners.
http://www.thelincolnmuseum.org/new/research/controversies.html
lincoln quotes
"But for your race among us there could not be a war, although many men on either side do not care for you one way or another." -Lincoln

Below someone posted a quotation attributed to former slave and black activist Frederick Douglass. It reads: "There are at the present moment, many colored men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers, but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders and bullets in their pockets ready to shoot down...and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government.

2007-12-09 14:35:26 · 6 answers · asked by rod 2

Anytime I watch the news, all they talk about is politicians trying to win over Iowa. What's the deal??

2007-12-09 14:18:34 · 7 answers · asked by kristikclark 3

Personally, I think that is fallacious Whitehouse rhetoric to support staying...
But for Bush supporters who actually buy that BS- why are ANY of those people commending our commander-in-chief for doing a good job in the War on Terror when we could be attacked?
Does it really make any sense? This quagmire exists due to our president's push for an unnecessary invasion, and the former congress's backing. There were plenty of other cruel dictators, worse than Saddam, especially in Africa...
And now in this Iraq war we are celebrating merely a brief period of decreased troop deaths? Oh boy. What a sad, remorseful state of affairs we must be in...
Commending our president now is analogous to someone beating up a person, and when the court orders the violent offender to pay the hospital bills, he is praised and patted on the back for doing so.
Worse yet, Pres. Bush already stated the war will continue beyond his administration. Seems like he already has admitted he went way in over his head.

2007-12-09 14:00:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hear alot of college people my age that agree more with the republican party. Most of the media says that young people want a liberal as a president, but young people have a way of not doing exactly what the media tells us to do. Its all good if you agree with liberals that want to legalize pot, let gays get married, or make factories out of unborn babies. But most young people don't want a no boundaries person to be the president. I hear that many young people are patriotic.

2007-12-09 13:52:21 · 13 answers · asked by Clarrence C 1

Sometimes I am amazed at the loyality to political parties.

Does all of America have Stockholm syndrome

2007-12-09 13:49:28 · 11 answers · asked by whirling W dervish 2

were talking about it in my government class and i just want to know what other people think about it.

2007-12-09 13:48:43 · 5 answers · asked by new orleans 7ward 4lyfe 2

Something that really does justice to their philosophy and goals?

There must be something.

2007-12-09 13:40:54 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 13:32:20 · 11 answers · asked by whirling W dervish 2

good of the collective? Honestly, it seems so odd that this is an issue in the USA...how much to let individual citizens keep of what they earn. Our citizens have access to education, there's every job under the sun here, the government does not dictate any specific direction. Just about anyone should be able to make a great life here, and not rely on the government to force people to contribute to their well-being.

Thanks in advance for answering THE QUESTION ;)

2007-12-09 13:28:29 · 11 answers · asked by Yahoo Answer Angel 6

The UK gets a lot of stick from former colonies who long ago got their independance, but still say the UK is responsible for their current troubles.

I was just wondering if anyone in the US thinks the UK (as the former colonial power) still owes them something.

2007-12-09 13:23:30 · 18 answers · asked by P P 3

Please explain your answers....The jim crow laws were segregation laws.

2007-12-09 13:23:07 · 9 answers · asked by Clarrence C 1

just their kinda guy......manipulated elections, concentration of power, secrecy, suspension of rights, ignoring the law, the central government ruling rather than serving...the people serving rather than governing....only one point of view acceptable...all others are maginalized.....

2007-12-09 13:10:40 · 12 answers · asked by amazed we've survived this l 4

Can't I have a political opinion without supporting Bush to the fullest? I liked Clinton? And I don't agree with everything Bush has done.

2007-12-09 13:09:32 · 7 answers · asked by *the dancing machine* 3

NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.

2007-12-09 13:01:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Whether your on the left and agree that Big Business could profit from international cooperation, or your on the right and say social values can be reinforced from support abroad, can we all agree that the GOP would benefit substantially from an International Conservative Party? Social Conservatives worldwide believe in religious freedom (as well as integrity), human rights preservation, independence from the "nanny" state, developed (albeit not necessarily free) international trade, and secured family values. Big business would love the chance to get involved in overseas markets previously deemed unaccessible due to fears of sovereignty loss, irrational economic planning, and countless trade restrictions.

On the flip side, how could a worldwide liberal movement workout? Imagine Labour working with the Democrats....

Then and again, maybe not. They're both an internal mess by themselves as it is.

2007-12-09 12:52:40 · 4 answers · asked by Mikey C 5

Conservatives in the US like to make all sorts of outlandish claims about Canadians "sneaking across the border" to have operations performed in the US. I've lived in countries with national health care in the past, and never have I seen anyone call for a repeal of public care or an attempt at privitization.
Tell me what you think of the single payer system in Canada, and if there are any efforts to bring in private companies up there.

2007-12-09 12:52:32 · 14 answers · asked by brickity hussein brack 5

2007-12-09 12:51:10 · 13 answers · asked by mw 7

Every other westernized country seems to see the handwriting on the wall when it comes to no brainers like this. You can throw capital punishment in there too btw.

2007-12-09 12:48:31 · 17 answers · asked by brickity hussein brack 5

Both were scientific consensus at one time.

2007-12-09 12:44:24 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

that might help to explain a few things . . .

2007-12-09 12:33:25 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-09 12:30:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

on a scale of zero to ten. zero being definitely not real, ten being definitely real.

not a single scientist that i've heard of believes it's not even a possibility. i've heard scientists (like gray) put up alternative explanations for the warming, but none of the alternative explanations have much (sometimes none at all) experimental data to back them up.

unless there's another variable at play (unlikely), or the data has been manipulated (even more unlikely), the only possible explanation for the warming (five times what it would have been, using only 'natural factors') over the past century is the increase in co2 due to human industrialization.

2007-12-09 12:25:17 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Im doing a debate on why torture SHOULD be allowed under certain circumstances, and I need a little more information on the Geneva Convention, Terrorists, and why they dont apply. I dont understand the Geneva convention fully, so all help is needed.

Thanks

2007-12-09 12:20:19 · 10 answers · asked by Mr. 2

1)We dump millions of tons of organic gasses into the atmosphere (CO, CO2, CH4)

2)The earth's rate of warming is increasing. You may say that the Earth is warming up due to natural causes. HOWEVER, the rate of change is unnaturally increasing. The d²T/dt² is relatively large, if you will. Not such that of a N.E.O collision, but certianly more than the given natural causes.

3)Current models show that organic gasses generally increase average temperature. Look at Venus.

4)Al Gore is a hypocrite. However, this does not effect scientific data.

5)Yes, nature gives off green house gasses, and yes it may cause a drift of global warming. But, according to Lovelock's Gaia theory, it shoudln't have an effect to have a rapid change of slow heating to quicker heating.

6)You can debate that people use this to get money. However, the data is still there and personal intentions do not change scientific data.

7)Please don't bring up the global cooling theory from the 70's. It's silly

2007-12-09 12:03:21 · 10 answers · asked by Mitchell 5

What does that tell you about Democrats and our kids?

2007-12-09 12:01:37 · 17 answers · asked by How Big is Your Govt Check 3

The week, the UK removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it "offended" the Muslim population which claimed it never occurred. This is a frightening portent of fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now a little over 60 years since WW2 ended.
Is this necessary to keep the memory of this in schools or should it be removed?

Comments anyone?

2007-12-09 11:55:14 · 5 answers · asked by Marina 1 6

2007-12-09 11:51:12 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Was it rocket science?

Or does it tell us something about Democrat voters?

Does tell us something about YA Dems?

2007-12-09 11:50:07 · 6 answers · asked by Duminos 2

What is bad and evil about Communism?, no true Communist country or society has ever truly existed, so why do people criticize Communism so much as being the root of all evil?, The Soviet Union was only evil and cruel under Joseph Stalin, after him the Soviet Union was much better. I am not a Communist, I'm just wondering why people criticize and judge something without fully knowing what it is first.

2007-12-09 11:47:39 · 6 answers · asked by introvertedguy06 6