Politics & Government - 19 July 2006

Are guns outdated? Should we just outlaw all guns? The 2nd amendment doesn't say anything about guns; it just says we have the right to bear arms.

What would happen if instead of using gun to protect our houses, we used tazers?

What if we banned guns and made the penalty of position of a gun the same manslaughter?

What about a person’s right to due process? If you shoot someone in your house do you rob them of their 4th amendment rights?

If you must lock your gun up to proctect your family, will you have enough time to get it, unlock it, and use it? With a tazer you wouldn't have that problem.

2006-07-19 17:13:34 · 17 answers · asked by theFo0t 3 in Politics

I believe Russia and China will form a secret alliance to destroy our country. Both of these countries are powerful, dangerous, and despise the western world. The chinese control most of our American ports and Russia has countless nuclear weapons. Together, they could secretly import nukes into every major city on our coastlines and America could be put into an extreme state of vunerability. We would have no choice but to surrennder and hand over our arms to the enemy. Checkmate.

2006-07-19 17:11:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

When i was 16 my mom took the citizenship test and passed so i automatically received my US passport too. But I havent received the certificate of naturalization. Can i just apply for it? dont i have to say my oath? i dunno help me!!!! and where should i go to do this? the passport office?

2006-07-19 17:08:51 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

hi there
guys i live in jordan here i think there is no freedom
so my question is what is freedom ? is it when i say my opinion ?
here in jordan if you say anything about the goverment they will put you in jail :s
here you cant say anything about politics.
GOD
KING ------> treated like god !
NATION


thats how the things are here in jordan.
you know guys dont laugh at me but i'm scared while i'm writing this.
sorry for my english

2006-07-19 17:07:49 · 22 answers · asked by ramroom 1 in Politics

i thought it was the famas(not sure actual model) style but i heard it was an STG austrian model

2006-07-19 17:06:43 · 5 answers · asked by lots_of_pie 4 in Military

The power to fit in with one's social peers can be irresistible. To a human lemming, the logic behind an opinion doesn't count as much as the power and popularity behind an opinion. Man, like lemming, behaves collectively. And it could be no other way. Naturally, the individual must be equipped with this trait. Otherwise, the smallest steps toward civilization could never have been made. Lemminghood is a survival trait, an inborn instinct in the majority of people. However, as with all natural phenomena, this tendency can be manipulated and used for harmful purposes.
It is this lemming effect which enables entire segments of a society to lose their sense of judgment all at the same time. This research paper will likely be wasted on many lemmings. For lemmings, denial is a basic psychological defense mechanism used to not only shield themselves from unpleasant realities, but also to reassure themselves that they will still fit within the acceptable range of opinion held by their peer group. Lemmings are absolutely terrified at the thought of being labeled as an "extremist" or a "conspiracy theorist". At all costs, their beliefs must always be on the "right" side of the issue and conform within the boundaries of their lemming peers. Lemmings simply cannot bear the burden of responsibility, or the discomfort, which comes with thinking independently. They'll resist any efforts to change their misguided beliefs with all their mental energy. We can try to open their closed minds and free them from their self-imposed blindness, but it’s not easy fighting the force of human nature. The chains of ideological conformity have too strong of a grip, and breaking them is a difficult task. With the limited resources at our disposal, it is next to impossible to compete with the media lemming-masters. Nevertheless, some of us must make the meager attempt, and thus lay the foundation upon which the truth might one day rise again.

There are of course those who have fallen under the hypnotic spell of the TV talking-heads and "experts" whom they worship as authority figures. Unaccustomed to thinking for themselves, no amount of truth can sway them from their preconceived prejudices. They will even deny that which they see with their own eyes. They are victims of a psychological affliction known as "the lemming effect". Lemmings are small rodents who have been known to follow each other as they charge to their deaths into raging rivers or off of cliffs. Lemminghood is an innate psychological phenomenon, present in most mammals and observable in common people as well the most sophisticated and educated elites. Lemminghood is not an intellectual phenomenon - it is psychological. As such, no socio-economic class is immune to its strangulating effect. A grant- seeking university scientist can be a lemming just as much as a fashion obsessed teen-age girl. One blindly follows the latest trendy theory while the other blindly follows the latest trendy clothing style. What's the difference? Neither can resist the force of nature.

There are those among us who do have the courage and intellectual capacity to break free of the shackles of lemminghood and accept the truth when it is presented in a clear and logical sequence. To those open minded and independent thinkers I wish to state clearly and unequivocally. I intend to set forth in this paper an overwhelming body of evidence which should forever destroy the notion that a Saudi Arabian caveman and his band of half-trained, nerdy Arab flight school attendees, orchestrated the most sophisticated terror operation in world history. The idea is utterly laughable. And yet, due to the blithering barrage of bullshit dished out by the government/media complex, "patriotic" Americans have accepted this ridiculous fairy tale with a religious conviction. As a public service to my fellow Americans, I have published the results of my research in the hopes of liberating as many people as I can from the oppressive yoke of media brainwashing and state sponsored lies. Do you have what it takes to break free?

2006-07-19 17:06:30 · 4 answers · asked by jim galaxy 1 in Other - Politics & Government

My mom had a gastric bypass from a reputable company and she paid the money up front that was to cover everything including follow ups. After she had it done a year later most of the people that worked there are now gone and the new people are going through and doing an audit of the past pacients and are saying the she owes thousands of dollars again. She has gotten a final notice bill because she told them that she doesn't owe any more and has even stopped going to the follow ups. Is there a law or anything that protects from going back on the pacients like that or not.
Any info would be great
thanks

2006-07-19 17:06:03 · 4 answers · asked by SANDY B 1 in Law & Ethics

2006-07-19 17:02:38 · 8 answers · asked by j h 2 in Government

2006-07-19 17:02:26 · 3 answers · asked by soperson 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Out of the following 3 choices:

Class
Race
Religion

2006-07-19 17:02:26 · 17 answers · asked by New Jersey Steve 5 in Politics

why the heck would that moron veto a bill (stem cell research) thats gonna help life and help others to walk again, move again, see again, breath better again, what the heck is wrong with that moron? does he have a cross burried up his *** so far that its stickin into his brain?

2006-07-19 17:02:02 · 14 answers · asked by ♥ Crystal C ♥ 4 in Politics

Sure we vote for people to represent who will best side with the issues we believe in. But how can you be so sure that one person will represent all of the issues you believe in? I'd go and vote for issues.. maybe they could make this available online.

2006-07-19 17:02:02 · 4 answers · asked by phishycoding 4 in Other - Politics & Government

Especially about the Patriot Act and America losing its freedoms under the guise of security.

I used to be a Republican who used to be a Democrat. Now I'm a Democrat again, and am voting Democrat in 2006. Things have gotten out of hand. Our constitution guaranteed our rights to freedoms, and we should be entitled to all of them. Freedom of speech, among other rights are being thrashed without regard.

So, to you liberals, my apologies, you were right about everything.

Thank you.

2006-07-19 17:01:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

HAH HAAA! I have tricked you. The question clearly states "ILLEGAL ALIENS ONLY". Now that you have clicked on this question, and perhaps even answered it, you have been reported to the INS! That's right, la migra! They are on there way right now to deport you! Pack a bag, and grab Granny and the cat!

2006-07-19 16:57:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

2006-07-19 16:57:19 · 13 answers · asked by Baaad Dokhtar 3 in Politics

why or why not? im just curious

2006-07-19 16:55:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Government

is it rude to ask?

i am trying to be carefull... i dont want to upset anyone!

2006-07-19 16:54:07 · 20 answers · asked by Americans1st 2 in Immigration

OUR troops are getting killed trying to help them set up a government when they dont even want us there. OUR young men are getting ripped from theyre family's even after we got rid of Saddam, who was the threat to us. Is this right?

2006-07-19 16:53:18 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

Ok, head to your nearest FORD, dealer late at night. shimmy the locks on that Mustang youhave always been wanting, hot wire it, take it home .

8 weeks later come back to the dealership and demand the give you the free tire rotation and oil change the offer with every new car.

and if we can get the whole community to do the same thing we can protest city hall, demending they give us our auto registration for free, and if any one at any time tries to press charges, we will start screaming prejudice.

2006-07-19 16:52:40 · 13 answers · asked by gwarr129 2 in Immigration

List everyone you think may run, and then pick a winner. Thanks

2006-07-19 16:52:35 · 10 answers · asked by borisovna7 2 in Government

In the next few days approaching, they schedule me for a Psychiatric evaluation for a position as a Correctional Officer. As you probably may be familiar with the complicated phases of obtaining a law enforcement position. I already passed my background check, interview (that was intense, 5 personnel in a small room interviewed me, and the questions were mostly targets at my past )
and I still have to pass my psychiatric & physical.

My question to you is, if you went thought the hiring process . . . During this phase with the doctor, what kind of questions he or she might ask? How do I conduct myself? I know you have to be yourself, but I heard from a friend that during this phase, you must be very carefully of how you say your responds. For an example, the doctor might ask you, Have you even get mad? Now . . . I know everyone to get mad at one point of their lives and I would answer yes. Nevertheless, that is not the favorable responds, and could work against you.

It is this type of questions that have me worry a bit. According to researches, they said mind doctors think very complicated. They do not think normally. If a person says, I like to eat apply.... they translate that as . . . I like to suck whatever . . . If you say A, and you really mean a they see Z.

What should I do? I really want to get this job. Any advises?

2006-07-19 16:48:44 · 13 answers · asked by alliedbarton2005 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

2006-07-19 16:46:20 · 6 answers · asked by sf 2 in Other - Politics & Government

OK, i'm really sick of the president questions here so heres one more for you that dont get it.,

2006-07-19 16:46:08 · 15 answers · asked by jim galaxy 1 in Government

Lazy Eye: I Cannot see well with my left eye. I only need glasses to read.

Will that disqualify me from being an Aircraft Mechanic in the AF?

2006-07-19 16:45:37 · 8 answers · asked by Smiles_187 2 in Military

Le't us know why.

2006-07-19 16:43:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-07-19 16:43:55 · 13 answers · asked by mommajude 1 in Military

the jew religion says that in the war they must kill women and children. so what do you think ?!?!
why islam is bad when jew is like that ?!!?!?!

source: bible (torah)

ps : i'm christian :) but believe me you dnt know anything about muslim relgion they say to kill jes in war.
jew relgion says that everyone are pigs and they are the chosen. chosen for what ? for killing people ? ofcourse muslim gonna blow him self when israeli kills his family.
really guys dnt know what they are teaching you there in west no offence :)

2006-07-19 16:43:28 · 7 answers · asked by rikardogomez 1 in Politics

Maybe you should call Lt. Ripley. Maybe she can solve the problem.

2006-07-19 16:41:06 · 29 answers · asked by mark05122003 1 in Immigration

2006-07-19 16:40:44 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

Just a curious thought!

2006-07-19 16:40:21 · 12 answers · asked by Americans1st 2 in Immigration