Politics - 12 December 2007

Like the FDA making sure food and drug products are safe, the EPA making sure they don't dump their waste in rivers, and the FTC enforcing consumer protection laws?

Or should we let the "invisible hand of capitalism" fix everything?

2007-12-12 05:11:32 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

just curious... is there proof?

and why would they do something like that?

2007-12-12 05:11:15 · 6 answers · asked by omnimog 4

2007-12-12 05:08:25 · 4 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

2007-12-12 05:08:02 · 7 answers · asked by Clarance C 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DJIA_historical_graph.svg
I put this into the politics division because this chart is a common chart used today to describe the markets...you will notice that the later years are squished tighter together. I'm wondering what the market conditions are under Bush compared to Clinton to Reagan...What factors are squishing the last few years? Is it volume traded? Is it the real value in 1970 Dollars? Help me understand this. Feel free to have opinions on the current state of our economy.

2007-12-12 05:06:44 · 4 answers · asked by Ford Prefect 7

What would you do or how would you react if you saw George W. Bush Christmas Shopping at the Mall?

2007-12-12 05:06:00 · 26 answers · asked by Mr. Knowledgeable VI 7

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

2007-12-12 05:04:51 · 7 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5

They both look like welfare to me.

2007-12-12 05:04:16 · 6 answers · asked by Guerilla Liberal fighter 3

28% of americans think the economy is in bad shape? IS this more indicative of americans fuzzy grasp of the real world or just greed?

2007-12-12 05:02:37 · 4 answers · asked by JJ P 3

2007-12-12 05:02:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said today that the "jury is still out" on whether or not humans co-existed with dinosaurs and other pre-historic creatures.

Responding to a question during a rally in Plainview, a Des Moines suburb, Huckabee said that it was possible that humans interacted with the giant reptiles as recently as 6,000 years ago.

"Did humans live alongside dinosaurs? I wasn't there, so I don't know for sure. But I do know that my Bible describes dragons in Genesis. They could have drowned in Noah's Flood," he said.

According to recent polls, Huckabee has surged in both Iowa and South Carolina.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/11/huckabee.dinosaurs/index.html

2007-12-12 04:59:35 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 04:59:11 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

george w bush wanted to be a cheerleader in high school

2007-12-12 04:58:47 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

Federal Reserve announced a plan to work with other central banks to alleviate a global credit crisis. The Dow Jones industrials surged more than 100 points.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street

Why is it OK for banks to be on corporate welfare?

2007-12-12 04:54:45 · 8 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Or should he or she just let the chips fall were they may?

2007-12-12 04:51:47 · 20 answers · asked by Clarance C 2

2007-12-12 04:51:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

open up a whorehouse

2007-12-12 04:47:38 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-12-12 04:40:43 · 7 answers · asked by alphabetsoup2 5

2007-12-12 04:24:30 · 25 answers · asked by Clarance C 2

It's the most right-wing Christian College in America.



"The possession, storage, display, or use of any kind of ammunition, firearms, replicas, fireworks, explosives, air rifles, air pistols, paintball guns, or any other potentially lethal instrument is prohibited on University property. ANY WATER GUN THAT IS SIMILAR TO ANY TYPE OF FIREARM FITS IN THIS CATEGORY. ANY WATER GUN THAT IS USED IN ANY WAY TO ANNOY ANOTHER PERSON WILL ALSO BE CONFISCATED."

2007-12-12 04:23:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

It was determined 50+ years ago to be torture.

I don't want to be a nation that condones or practices torture!

We ARE better than that! That is what I always thought made the United States of America an awesome country!
We have technology and intelligence that make torture unnecessary!

Again if people were imprisoned for the use of waterboarding American prisoners of war 50+ years ago how can we now in 2007 accept the fact that the U.S. government is using this technique?

2007-12-12 04:23:03 · 17 answers · asked by Kelly B 4

2007-12-12 04:21:32 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_veto

2007-12-12 04:21:02 · 12 answers · asked by kenny J 6

Rate yourself based along this sliding scale:
10C (Anne Coulter conservative)
0M (insert your own ideal moderate in this space)
10L (Michael Moore liberal)

2007-12-12 04:14:26 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous

why or why not?

Did wall street not make money on the things that caused the crunch? and now they will make money on the attempst to fix the crunch? Does wall street make money off high oil prices?

2007-12-12 04:11:54 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

by the year 2020? Now that seems like a bit of a stretch of development time, considering JFK anounced that we would land a man on the moon and return him safely back to earth in less than 10 years at a time when the US hadn't even put a man in orbit. Now I'm not an Einstein but it appears to me that the difficulty factor would be a bit higher to develop the technology to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth in less than 10 years than it would to increase fuel efficiency in automobiles, but for some reason we are giving the auto manufacturers alot more time. Could it be because the oil companies have a VERY strong influence on the American Government? and perhaps someone should look at the politicians' stock portfolios as well. Not making an outrageous accustaion here, I'm just saying.

2007-12-12 04:08:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

If only people would stop behavior that causes TB, like breathing behavior, and coughing behavior, we wouldn't have tuberculosis in third world countries like Kazakstan. Someone teach those people to hold their breath already!

2007-12-12 04:05:58 · 12 answers · asked by brickity hussein brack 5

"In a statement timed before the start of trading in New York, the Fed said it planned to offer $40 billion in emergency funds to banks next week"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071212/ap_on_bi_ge/fed_credit_crunch

It appears that Bush's Fed is only concerned about the market's quarterly earnings which is NOT the proposed function of the Fed.

- Please correct me if I am wrong? -

2007-12-12 04:03:40 · 13 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

if it is then in yur opinion whos is it going to be ,and why?
Will this time the axis powers will win over allies?
or this time the clock will change?

2007-12-12 03:57:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

Every new suicide bomber incident that kills a whole bunch of Iraqis in Iraq only proves that our soldiers need to stay in Iraq or the whole place will be one huge mess. If we have a period of a month that goes by in Iraq where violence seems to be down and there are no major suicide attacks, then this proves how important it is to keep our sodiers there in Iraq as they are the ones curbing the violence.

Is there a name for this logical fallacy?

2007-12-12 03:52:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous