Politics & Government - 6 July 2006

2006-07-06 11:55:04 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

These guys are definitly attention grabbers who have very little understanding of the worlds political affairs; spouting off retoric and complaining of censorship when normal, intelligent people don't agree with them.
What are your suggestions for changing their names?
like enlightenment=deluded
What do you all suggest?

2006-07-06 11:54:48 · 4 answers · asked by Michael A 3 in Military

i have not gotten paternity established nor do i recieve any child support from the childs father, who was deported to kenya about a year ago. how can i estabilsh paternity, and collect child support?

2006-07-06 11:54:37 · 2 answers · asked by kristin k 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-07-06 11:53:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

When the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified by the House and the Senate, many senators and representatives were disallowed from voting due to the recent Civil War. There is proof that many of the Southern states were coerced into ratifying the Amendment.

Should Congress and the Supreme Court reopen the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment and verify it's constitutionality?

I had already knew about the conflict about the 14th amendment, but if you care to read about it

http://www.barefootsworld.net/14uncon.html

is a good source of nonbiased info on the topic.

2006-07-06 11:51:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

hitler tried to wipe out jews... bush is trying to wipe out gays
hitler tried to take over the world starting with europe... bush is trying to take over the world starting with the middle east
hitler lied and made people believe what he was doing was right... bush lied and made people believe what he is doing is right
hitler killed millions of people... bush has killed hundreds of thousands

2006-07-06 11:50:55 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-06 11:49:22 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

2006-07-06 11:49:19 · 15 answers · asked by brian k 2 in Law & Ethics

for example if a police officer starts hitting you with no provocationand says I'm now going to handcuff you and arrest you and you feel your life is in danger what right do you have to defend yourself? and how can you prove you weren't just "resisting arrest" if there are no wittnesses or cameras....ps this is just hypothetical it didn't really happen to me...not yet

2006-07-06 11:47:49 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-07-06 11:46:28 · 19 answers · asked by Ethan M 5 in Politics

Willys cynical thought for the day;

In my web research, Declaration of Independence, etc., I have yet to find where the government says they'll be my freaking mommy! So you goddamn politicians stay the hell out of my life and pockets AZZHOLES!

The Nanny State (I got this in a Biker email rag)

Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law new cars must be equipped with air bags. Federal law mandates that all new toilets flush using a paltry 1.6 gallons of water. Georgia's governor mandates that classical music be given to all new mothers so as to aid infant IQ development. California, and others, has banned smoking in bars. Clinton wants a law passed banning smoking within 100 feet of a federal building. In parts of Ohio, children going trick-or-treating must obtain a special permit. These intrusions and more were recently revealed by television journalist John Stossel on ABC's 20/20. The stated motivation behind this gross intrusion and criminalization of private behavior is to protect us from making unwise choices.

John Stossel asked Ricardo Martinez, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), why can't people at least have air bag on/off switches. Martinez responded by saying that society makes decisions about what benefits most people, and most people benefit from air bags. Stossel interviewed Yale University's Professor Kelley D. Brownell, director of the Center for Eating & Weight Disorders who thinks Americans eat too many hamburgers and French fries. Professor Brownell wants government to tax fatty foods and those with little nutritional content and use the proceeds to subsidize fruits, vegetables and other nutritious foods. He's suggested that some of the tax proceeds be used to build bike and hiking trails.

I'm wondering just when Americans are going to decide that we've had enough government meddling in our lives. It is nobody's business whether I eat eggs sunny side up, drive without wearing seat belts, or pig out on hamburgers and French fries. I'd like someone to show me Congress's constitutional authority for government protecting me from making unwise choices. Those who believe government should be in the business of making us take care of ourselves, should tell us where does it all end? Should government decide what time we go to bed? After all sleep is vital to good health. Should government force us to exercise, read wholesome literature, and bathe regularly?

The people who advocate a nanny government (a better term is Nazi government) are cowards. You say, "What do you mean, William?" Take Kelley Brownell. If he doesn't want me to eat that Big Mac and French fries, let him walk up to my table and remove them from my plate. He wants no part of doing that because he doesn't want to meet his maker this year so he prefers using the brutal forces of government. "The rest is mine;

When I was young, bullies use to pick on me, take food off my lunch tray and otherwise harass me. That's until I followed the advice of my father who told me that if you let a bully get away with one thing, the next day it's going to be something else and the following day something else again. He told me that the bullying won't stop until I decide to stand up and fight. He said that even if I lose the fight, the next time I'm bullied, stand up and fight again. Let the bully know that when he bullies, win, lose or draw, he has a fight on his hands. Eventually he will stop. I think Americans should employ my Dad's advice. As long as we stand as lambs before the slaughter you can bet that there'll be no end to Congress's bureaucratic stooges bullying us.

This is still America, last I checked anyway, yes we have 'freedom' here but 'freedom' is, never was and never will be 'Free.' Those of us who like to eat hamburgers and greasy fries must take responsibility by a) walking around with a big butt b) doing exercise or c) (in my case) taking cholesterol lowering pills and *trying* to stay away from the greasy stuff.

If we don't want to wear seatbelts, or helmets, WE, not Congress, must pay in pain, time (in hospitals, rehabs w/e), or loss of body parts. I'm firmly convinced I would never have survived, some of, the accidents I was in had I been hog-tied to the seat. The insurance companies, and Medical providers, ALWAYS lobby for these laws but I haven't heard of a single case where after such a law was passed the insurance company says, "Oh with your 20 year perfect driving record (not mine) we've decided that your next ___ year's insurance is on us." Has a hospital ever said, "Now that our ER doctors and nurses won't have to be patching up all the accidents maybe we should offer breast enlargement at half price?" Now stop laughing and reread this paragraph in it, under sarcasm, is the point I'm trying to make. The answer to both is NO! And unless an insurance company or hospital administrator is reading this, and wants to prove me wrong, I don't think it ever will be!

The 'it's good for you' doesn't stop at the things listed above. What if a slimy politician took it in his, or her, head that tattooing is wrong? Or certain subjects can't be tattooed on anybody? Like large breasted blondes, skulls, flames, or spider webs? I hope I'm NOT giving them any ideas because I have all these. This can be taken as far as you want to go like; they pass a law that ONLY Army, Marine, Navy, Airforce w/e tattoos are kosher. Or just Democrat or Republican ink is allowed. How about the ONLY lower back, female, tattoo that will be allowed is a 'GodSmack Sun?' Okay tattooists stop salivating imagining how much business you'll get by people running out to get their favorite tattoo done. And remember the upswing will only last until enforcement duties are figured out, i.e., the local Police, County cops, State Police or help us all if the FBI gets the job. Actually help them I don't need any help!

And of course that's not the only thing 'good for you.' This has been tried but what if Congress actually passed a law banning Rock & Roll, Country, Blues, Rock-a-Billy or Rap music. Or what if they legislate pianos, Violins and Trumpets are the only acceptable instruments? No electric guitars, fiddles, Blues Harps or Saxophones? And of course subsidizing lessons is another way to do, almost, the same thing!

Americans are lucky the founding fathers came from Europe where Religion - a belief in their God - was considered 'good for you' so it was mandated in some places; which is where 'The First Amendment' came from. If European governments had mandated seatbelts on cable cars and horses, and or required at least 4 oz. of meat at dinner -- chicken, beef or fish -- there may have been another Bill of Rights. This one saying, something like, "Congress shall make no law requiring citizens to do anything somebody thinks will be good for them." Unless, of course, any of them made, or sold, seatbelts or had anything to do with producing, or selling, meat. In 1776 that was, almost, everybody. This was long before people either ate meat or were vegetarians. In fact getting enough to eat was more important than the cholesterol!" Now a few quotes;

"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them." -- Auberon Herbert

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." -- Robert Heinlein

"The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best." -- Thomas Sowell

http://www.total-knowledge.com/~willyblues/

2006-07-06 11:45:41 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

If he ran for pres? Why?

What do you think about a woman president?

2006-07-06 11:44:25 · 16 answers · asked by Picard Facepalm 5 in Politics

..."vocaboolary"?

2006-07-06 11:44:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-06 11:42:10 · 15 answers · asked by garcia 2 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-06 11:40:54 · 30 answers · asked by Bobbie 5 in Other - Politics & Government

Like if they were unfairly removed off the throne and then evidence was found they were innocent and then get their position back.

2006-07-06 11:39:55 · 6 answers · asked by sungirl 2 in Other - Politics & Government

"Diversity" is hailed as a fantastic realization of the wonder of all different races, sex, and creeds. Diversity should in theory include white men (WM) under this rainbow of love.

In my experience diversity is used as a weapon to minimize the accomplishments of great WM, exclude WM from higher education, and employment opportunities, and generally create an us vs them (WM) mentality.

Why do "open minded" people use the banner of diversity as a weapon to exclude?

2006-07-06 11:38:34 · 14 answers · asked by Old Money 3 in Politics

I think we all should have the right to own a gun. I mean we need to protect ourselves. The question is, would you go and rape,rob or murder someone that you know has a gun in their possesion?
Guns dont kill people, the shooter does.

2006-07-06 11:38:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-06 11:38:04 · 11 answers · asked by garcia 2 in Other - Politics & Government

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060706/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_missiles_34;_ylt=AppxzFfqBrjpE9IMhQ_ECDCCscEA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

2006-07-06 11:36:33 · 17 answers · asked by twistedsingle 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-06 11:35:27 · 12 answers · asked by mavafire 2 in Civic Participation

2006-07-06 11:30:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-07-06 11:26:23 · 9 answers · asked by gypsyworks 3 in Government

Where do I start, and what forms do I need, who do I submit them to?

2006-07-06 11:25:53 · 4 answers · asked by Manu. 1 in Law & Ethics

considering they practically wiped out the Indians,took over their land, and enslaved black people. How can such a nation who have caused such atrocities, be front of the que when it comes to finger pointing and accussing other countries of wrong dooing? .......and no I'm not anti American.

2006-07-06 11:25:28 · 15 answers · asked by zero Tolerance 1 in Politics

Because attacking NKorea would be the last thing the US ever did. After all, what country protects NK's northern border? Yep, China. And the chinese could kick the ever loving crap our of the USA without raising a sweat.
That is why Bush will rattle the saber for a bit, scare everyone into trying to vote for the GOP again (sorry buddy, you can only cry wolf so many times) and then lapse back into a booze and cocaine induced coma.
So to those of you calling for NKorea to be turned into a "parking lot" try not to think ok? Clearly, you're very bad at it.

2006-07-06 11:24:12 · 17 answers · asked by Wylie Genius 2 in Military

There was a horrible fraud in the presidential election in Mexico. The victory was given to the conservative candidate (his name is calderon and his nickname is "fecal" which means "****"), which means that the flux of 500,000 illegal immigrants that come from Mexico to the US every year would keep steady. Do you know that before the presidential period of vicente fox the number of illegal immigrants coming from Mexico annually was about 100,000?. All the above means that the poverty in Mexico increased with fox and that will increase with the new president then we will have more illegal immigrants coming.
Even though the 3rd richest man of the world is a mexican (his name is "carlos slim" a man of arabian ancestry) and there are few others billionares in Mexico, there are millions and millions of poor people south of the border for whom their only hope is to come to america. Is time for us americans to help the mexicans to defeat their corrupt goverment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-07-06 11:22:47 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

You can't talk about the war, homosexuality, abortion, etc. from either side without offending anyone.

2006-07-06 11:21:48 · 22 answers · asked by laila 1 in Other - Politics & Government

He live on Cass street in Mt Clemens and was just told he had to go to Iraq. He was at the Big Boy restaurant in Mt Clemens and was crying, along with his family, as he sat waiting for his food. I could hear him talk. He was saying " OH Why!! Oh Why did I vote for Mr Bush? Boo Whoo...The war is worthless!! sniff Sniff!! I'm going to get my butt handed to me by the rag tag insurgents!! Boo Whoo...Sniff...Sniff!! I don't want to be a Marine. Boo Whoo....Then he said "Wait!! Canada is only 10 miles away!! Hi Ho Silver!!!! Awaay I go!!! The Marine quit crying and ate his food and off he went after throwing his hat ( Marine Cover ) in the trash. The Marine "River Danced" all the way to his car with family next to him. I do wish him well. I wish him the best life ever.

2006-07-06 11:21:46 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

I was naturalized as a minor. Parents are deceased, and their personal paperwork is missing, which was proof of my citizenship. I also lost my birthcertificate that was amongst that paperwork that they had. I am unable to get a passport without those.

2006-07-06 11:18:41 · 8 answers · asked by Ernest K 1 in Immigration